Border Angels by Anthony Quinn

Border Angels by Anthony Quinn

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Border Angels by Anthony Quinn

On the Irish border, Inspector Celcius Daly investigates human trafficking and a scorched corpse The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is a rugged place: cold, windswept, and dark. For the girls brought here from Eastern Europe, it may as well be a war zone. Put to work in a farmhouse brothel near Dunmore, the women are forced into a living hell. One night, a pimp takes one of them for a ride. She is just planning her escape when the car explodes. The next morning, there is nothing left but the pimp's charred body and the woman's footprints in the snow. As his forensics specialists turn their attention to the burned corpse, Police Inspector Celcius Daly obsesses over the footprints. Where exactly did the woman come from, and where did she go? It is the sort of question asked only in the borderlands-between North and South, between life and death. Praise for Disappeared A major piece of work. Eerily tender, a wonderfully wrought classic that is a landmark in the fiction of Northern Ireland. . . . Line up the glittering prizes of mystery. This one is going to take 'em all. -Ken Bruen, author of Rilke on Black Quinn has developed a plot that immerses the reader into a darkness we have only read about in the papers or seen on the late night news. -The State Journal-Register Anthony Quinn (b. 1971) is an Irish author and journalist. Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, Quinn majored in English at Queen's University, Belfast. After college, he worked a number of odd jobs-social worker, organic gardener, yoga teacher-before finding work as a journalist. He has written short stories for years, winning critical acclaim and, twice, a place on the short list for the Hennessy Literary Awards for New Irish Writing. He also placed as runner-up in a Sunday Times food writing competition. Border Angels is his second novel, the sequel to Disappeared, which also features Inspector Celcius Daly. Quinn continues his work as a journalist, reporting on his home county for the Tyrone Times.
Praise for DisappearedA major piece of workEerily tender, a wonderfully wrought classic that is a landmark in the fiction of Northern Ireland. . . . Line up the glittering prizes of mystery. This one is going to take 'em all. -Ken Bruen, author of Rilke on Black

Quinn has developed a plot that immerses the reader into a darkness we have only read about in the papers or seen on the late night news. -The State Journal-Register
Anthony Quinn (b. 1971) is an Irish author and journalist. Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, Quinn majored in English at Queen's University, Belfast. After college, he worked a number of odd jobs-social worker, organic gardener, yoga teacher-before finding work as a journalist. He has written short stories for years, winning critical acclaim and, twice, a place on the short list for the Hennessy Literary Awards for New Irish Writing. His book Disappeared was nominated for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel, and Kirkus Reviews named it to their list of 2012's Top 10 Best Crime Novels. Quinn also placed as runner-up in a Sunday Times food writing competition. Quinn continues his work as a journalist, reporting on his home county for the Tyrone Times.
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ISBN 13 9781480436053
ISBN 10 1480436054
Title Border Angels
Author Anthony Quinn
Series The Inspector Celcius Daly Mysteries
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Open Road Media
Year published 2013-11-07
Number of pages 250
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.