June of Ordinary Murders

The first book in a pacey and evocative detective series set in Victorian Dublin. In the 1880s the DMP classified crime in two distinct classes. Political crimes were ''special'', whereas theft, robbery and even murder, no matter how terrible, were ''ordinary''. Dublin, June 1887: the mutilated bodies of a man and a child are discovered in Phoenix Park and Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow steps up t...