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The Ruin (Dervla McTiernan, 2018). This is the first book of Cormac Reilly, a DI in Ireland. Newly transferred back to Galway, Reilly is assigned to re‑examine a case he first experienced as a young Garda, twenty years earlier. He discovered two neglected children called Jack and Maude Blake with their mother Hilaria dead upstairs. Now, he is faced with Jack found dead in the River Corrib, a supposed suicide.