Dead bodies are stacking up in Detective Kate Bowen's old Garda district right in the centre of Dublin. One in an abandoned warehouse, another in a burnt-out car, and finally a patient dies in suspicious circumstances, right under the noses of doctors and nurses in a private hospital.
Too much history
An old mentor reaches out to surveillance ace, Kate for help, convinced there's a serial killer on the loose. She is unconvinced until she reads her old college professor’s bizarre witness statement. Is Jeff de Courcy writing a fake script for some theatrical thrill, or executing unconnected men?
Too much to lose
Kate must think fast and act fast to stop a killer bent on rampaging revenge in this fast moving novella set in Dublin’s Trinity College.
T. R. Croke is author of the popular Detective Kate Bowen Thriller series. He added a crime fiction novella, One Night at the Perseverance Hotel in 2019 to his growing list.
Ray was a close reader in the selection panel for the First Pages Prize 2020 and has volunteered for several years as a judge in YAFF, the annual Young Adult Fiction Festival run by the American Library in Paris.
He served with An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police service, for thirty-six years, including overseas in Cyprus and France. During that time, he studied a BA (Hons) European Studies with the Open University and post-grad studies at Dublin City University.