In Reckoning, the final volume of the Mackie’s Law Trilogy, the fall-out from the tragedy that climaxes Volume Two, This Far South, finds its principal protagonists, Pete Mackie and Bob Kemp, reacting in untypical ways. Feelings of betrayal send Mackie on a path that threatens to set him outside not just his own law but the very law itself. Bob Kemp’s road is a solitary one until catching up with his long-gone past presents the opportunity of an unlikely future. For Sue Gannon, divided loyalties are further complicated by confrontations with her teenage son and within the local community.
As fate and violence overtake them again, it is not always a given that reckoning results in resolution – unless for that relentless prober for facts, constable Terry Grealy. Even then, nothing can be taken for granted.