Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. I really enjoyed that this book wasn't completely tied up with a neat ribbon at the end, that the bow is slightly wonky, ands that just how it is sometimes. The characters are well defined, you could almost smell the inside of Wesley's house and the cacophony of noise, compared to Margot's house where it's just her and her dad. Josie is brilliant, sassy, confident, most of the time, and is big enough to apologise when she has to. I hope there are more adventures for The Copsey's. There are a few stories going on, all of them interesting. Cormac’s girlfriend is working in Brussels, so they see each other only when he can fly over – not a healthy situation. Peter’s closest friend is the girl who grew up with him at boarding school since they were eight. They’ve been sharing a flat (no romance). We see just enough of them to help fill out the characters of Cormac and Peter. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town.

Immediately after finishing the second book in the DS Cormac Reilly series, I started reading THE GOOD TURN, the third novel in the set. At the beginning of this one, Reilly is not happy. As a result of events that occurred in the second book, his partner, Dr. Emma Sweeney, has moved to Brussels, and Cormac is trying to make this long distance relationship work. At the Garda Station in Galway, he is still being hampered by office politics, particularly with regards to his relationship with his superintendent, who has left Reilly’s unit understaffed while the majority of its Garda officers are deployed to work on a drug smuggling case being coordinated by the superintendent’s own son. The "mystery" of the people in the factory is solved as soon as they find the picture, which is about halfway through. The lead up to it is also very subtle/underplayed, more about Josie's desire to get her club going than anticipation and speculation over the light in the abandoned factory. It doesn't give the "mystery" element any sort of driving momentum, given it takes so long to get to the hook of the blurb and never feels like a major part of the book. I think this might be my favourite so far. Clever, well-written, and with people I look forward to meeting again in the future.Perfect for readers who love Robin Stevens and Katherine Woodfine, and full of fast-paced adventure, brilliant characters and snappy dialogue with themes of real-life activism and how to help others. So begins a series of adventures, small ones at first but then after seeing lights on in the empty factory building Josie wants to explore a bit more and everything becomes a lot more serious. What a fine author is Dervla McTiernan! In "The Good Turn", she splits the narratives early in the book, with Garda Cormac Reilly being suspended and remaining in Galway, and another young Garda, Peter Fisher, a protégé of Reilly, being sent to the seaside village of Roundstone as a banishment for a suspected unlawful killing. Other than that one small slip, the novel is as good as the first two entries in the series. What upsets me now is that this one appears to be the end of a trilogy that started with “The Ruin”. All plot threads introduced in that first book have been resolved, some happily, some not so happily. But I want to read more about Cormac Reilly and Peter Fisher in particular. I hope the author starts a new story line involving them. I also prefer the Ireland setting. I think Dervla McTiernan has extremely good insight into the problems of her homeland and I believe she could find more to say about these issues.

A missing child leads to Cormac Reilly and his protege Peter Fisher being on the outs. While Peter is shipped to Roundstone to work with his estranged father, Reilly digs deep into the corrupt police dept he is being forced out of.

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But all is not lost. He goes to visit Peter and apologise personally when he learns of something that could break the police corruption ring wide open. But who can he trust to tell about it. One is Peter Fisher, Reilly’s protege and subordinate detective at their Gallway station. Due to a series of misunderstandings and mismanagement, Fisher is forced to chase down a child kidnapper alone and, in the process, things go awry. Until an investigation can take place, he is sent away to basically eat humble pie and pound the beat at the small coastal village where he grew up and his father is still the police officer in charge.