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Peter McGarr #6
McGarr and the Method of Descartes
Twelve years after a night of terror in Belfast, Dublin police inspector Peter McGarr is drawn into a vengeful victim's plot of public retribution, whose target is the Reverend Ian Paisley
289 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Bartholomew Gill
30 books28 followersBartholomew Gill is the pen name of Mark McGarrity.
Mr. McGarrity was born in Holyoke, Mass., and graduated from Brown University in 1966. He studied for his master's degree at Trinity College, Dublin, and never tired of mining the country for material.
''One of the things they gave me,'' he once said of his books, ''is a chance to go back to Ireland time and time again to do research.''
He was also an avid outdoorsman, and since 1996 worked at The Star-Ledger of Newark as a features writer and columnist under the McGarrity name, specializing in nature and outdoor recreation. While continuing to produce McGarr novels, sometimes at the rate of one a year, Mr. McGarrity produced several articles a week for the newspaper. He wrote about a variety of topics ranging from environmental issues to the odd characters he encountered in his travels, like an Eastern European immigrant who grew up watching cowboy movies and found his dream job playing Wyatt Earp in an amusement park in rural New Jersey.
Mr. McGarrity also published five novels under his own name.
Series:
* Peter McGarr Mystery
Mr. McGarrity was born in Holyoke, Mass., and graduated from Brown University in 1966. He studied for his master's degree at Trinity College, Dublin, and never tired of mining the country for material.
''One of the things they gave me,'' he once said of his books, ''is a chance to go back to Ireland time and time again to do research.''
He was also an avid outdoorsman, and since 1996 worked at The Star-Ledger of Newark as a features writer and columnist under the McGarrity name, specializing in nature and outdoor recreation. While continuing to produce McGarr novels, sometimes at the rate of one a year, Mr. McGarrity produced several articles a week for the newspaper. He wrote about a variety of topics ranging from environmental issues to the odd characters he encountered in his travels, like an Eastern European immigrant who grew up watching cowboy movies and found his dream job playing Wyatt Earp in an amusement park in rural New Jersey.
Mr. McGarrity also published five novels under his own name.
Series:
* Peter McGarr Mystery
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June 25, 2025
The plot was all but incomprehensible. I nearly quit reading several times. Where was his editor? Two things, as well as a precious fondness for Murder Squad stories, caused me to persevere. One was Gill’s incredible ear for dialogue. The other is his marvelous crafting of multidimensional characters.
June 16, 2017
Dark and complicated. I found it difficult to follow flow of dialogue and was disconcerted by the change from his usual procedurals.
October 3, 2015
I usually love Gill's books but this one left me cold. Perhaps it's the Irish Troubles that always confuse me as to who's who.
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