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One of Dublin's most effective men complies with a violent end-and an acknowledged master of offense fiction gives his most gripping book yet. On the sweltering summer afternoon, papers tycoon Richard Jewell-known to his many enemies as Gemstone Dick-is discovered with his brain blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For benefit the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett telephone calls in his old friend Quirke, that has unusual usage of Dublin's elite. Jewell's coolly beautiful French partner, Françoise, seems significantly less than shocked by her husband's fatality. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is shocked to discover that in her grief she's turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. Further, Sinclair has been experiencing Quirke's fractious princess, Phoebe, and an improbable relationship is blossoming between the two. As an archive heat wave envelops metropolis and the trick deals underpinning Gemstone Dick's empire commence to be exposed, Quirke and Hackett find themselves swept up in a dark web of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster. In this tightly plotted and gorgeously written book, the brilliant but sometimes reckless Quirke learns that, in a city where old money and the right bloodlines rule, he is in no way safe from mortal risk.
