Great police procedural with insight into Ireland and Dublin in the late 1880s. Joe Swallow is a great character and I appreciate reading a novel set in Ireland where the detective is not an alcoholic or very nearly so. I enjoyed the first novel in the series A June of Ordinary Murders, but in this one Brady has hit his stride. The characters are better developed, the mystery more complex and of course political. Excellent overall.

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