A Nice Place To Die: A DS Ryan
McBride Novel by J. Woollcott begins with a body
in late October. Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride, his partner, DS Billy Lamont,
and others are at the river scene where a woman has been found dead. A body is
always tough. In this case, even more so far DS Ryan as he knows the victim and
had recently been intimate with her.
If he tells his boss, or anyone, he will be
pulled from the case. The dead woman’s name is Kathleen McGuire. They connected
in a local bar one evening and spent what he thought was a memorable night
together. He definitely was interested and never heard back from her. Now he
never will as the beautiful woman is dead. He is barely holding it together
when her identical twin sister, Rose McGuire, shows up at Antrim Road Station
looking to file a missing person’s report.
What follows is a complicated police procedural
with a cast of interesting and complex characters. At the heart is DS Ryan
McBride, a man who has seen a lot, prefers the quiet of his off-duty life at
his farm, and seeks justice for the dead and the wronged. While the McGuire
case takes the majority of his time, that isn’t the only case he and his team
work in this complicated police procedural set in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Book one of a series, this read sets the ground floor and does it very well. Several complicated cases, interactions between various members of the team with their own backstories and lives outside the job, and rich details of setting make A Nice Place To Die: A DS Ryan McBride Novel by J. Woollcott quite the read.
Strongly recommended.
Make sure to read Aubrey’s recent review of the
second book in the series, Blood
Relations. It was because of her review I went looking for this
first book and bought it on Amazon using funds in my Amazon Associate account.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2023
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