ISLANDBRIDGE: A Matt Minogue Mystery **AWARD FINALIST**

Toronto, ON, Canada: McArthur & Company, 2005. 1st. Ed. FINE. Trade Paperback Original. A HAMMETT AWARD NOMINEE. A Matt Minogue mystery set in Dublin. A copper learns he has been living a lie: the past returns with a vengeance. Dublin then -- November late 1980s sees Garda Declan Kelly working his last off-duty shift outside a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder. Spared a bullet in the back of the head, he is snared instead by a crime family and forced into an impossible position. His suicide note to his pregnant wife brings her overpowering rage as well as grief. It also gives her a thirst for revenge on all who let her husband down -- including the Guards themselves. Her husband had asked for help from his Sergeant. The reply was a cold demand to turn himself in, as a criminal. Dublin now -- From a jittery addict, Minogue hears that a crime syndicate has had an insider copper - a senior, ranking Garda officer - for many years. Is this a ruse? Probing further, he runs up against a disturbing link between a trafficked Moldovan girl. Also, there are rumblings of a feud between Irish crime families and Eastern European gangsters too. Trawling the pubs and club, Minogue comes in contact with a prostitution racket run by an affable, accented ‘George.’ A chase down the teeming lanes and streets of central Dublin ends in a violent clash between police and criminals, and between the present and the past.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback Original.