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Hard cases to crack, from a Galway ruin to the west London underworld

A YOUNG man's apparent suicide in Galway brings back a disturbing memory for Detective Sergeant Cormac Reilly in The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Sphere, £8.99).

 

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