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'An unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from one of Canada s finest novelists. Ottawa Review of Books Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats public housing in Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda S-ochna, the Irish police. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the tenements of Dublin have not been welcomed in the police force. When his friend Rosaleen is killed and the case goes unsolved, Shay decides to put on the uniform of a Dublin garda and sets out to find the killer. The murder inquiry makes an enemy of the detective who failed in the first investigation. Shay knows Detective McCreevy is just waiting for the chance to get revenge. But the violent death of a prominent politician gives Shay the opportunity to prove himself, perhaps even be promoted. Shay works with the lead detective on the murder inquiry and his star is rising, until suspicion falls on a member of Shay s own fa

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	15 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781773059815
Langue	English

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Fenian Street A Mystery
Anne Emery

Contents Praise for Anne Emery Prologue Part One Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Part Two Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI Chapter XXVII Chapter XXVIII Chapter XXIX Chapter XXX Chapter XXXI Chapter XXXII Chapter XXXIII Chapter XXXIV Author’s Note Acknowledgements About the Author Copyright

Praise for Anne Emery
Praise for The Keening
“The intricately developed story may appeal to fans of Cora Harrison’s ‘Burren’ mysteries.”
— Library Journal
“A rich and rewarding book, it arouses our sympathies for the long, painful history of the Irish within an engrossing mystery.”
— Historical Novel Society
“Halifax author Anne Emery has superbly blended two fascinating storylines in The Keening , a splendid murder mystery with characters you wish you knew.”
— Winnipeg Free Press
Praise for Postmark Berlin
“Emery has twice won the Arthur Ellis Award (both for earlier installments in this series), and readers who have not yet sampled her tough-edged crime fiction are advised to rectify that immediately. A fine entry in a consistently strong series.”
— Booklist
“As in the earlier novels, this one relies on two particular strengths — immaculate research and moral worthiness — and along the way, it slides expertly around a whole slew of narrative conundrums.”
— Toronto Star
Praise for Though the Heavens Fall
“Emery populates 1995 Belfast so conscientiously and evokes its atmosphere so faithfully . . .”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Anyone looking for a mystery series to read would be well advised to consider the Collins-Burke mystery series by Anne Emery . . . Filled with lots of suspense, a good plot and some history, Though the Heavens Fall is another excellent novel in this entertaining series!”
— Hamilton Spectator
“ Though the Heavens Fall keeps us on our toes until the bitter end. And based on that ending, the sequel will be a must-read too.”
— Atlantic Books Today
Praise for Lament for Bonnie
“The author’s ability to say more with less invites readers along for the dark ride, and the island’s Celtic culture serves as a stage to both the story’s soaring narrative arc and a quirky cast of characters, providing a glimpse into the Atlantic Canadian communities settled by Scots over two hundred years ago.”
— Celtic Life
“The novel is ingeniously plotted.”
— Reviewing the Evidence
Praise for Ruined Abbey
“True to the Irish tradition of great storytelling, this is a mesmerizing tale full of twists that will keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.”
— Publishers Weekly , starred review
“This is a really tightly plotted historical with solid characters and the elegant style we expect from Emery.”
— Globe and Mail
“Suspenseful to the final page.”
— Winnipeg Free Press
Praise for Blood on a Saint
“As intelligent as it is entertaining . . . The writing bustles with energy, and with smart, wry dialogue and astute observations about crime and religion.”
— Ellery Queen
“Emery skilfully blends homicide with wit, music, theology, and quirky characters.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Death at Christy Burke’s
“Emery’s sixth mystery (after 2010’s Children in the Morning ) makes excellent use of its early 1990s Dublin setting and the period’s endemic violence between Protestants and Catholics.”
— Publishers Weekly , starred review
“Halifax lawyer Anne Emery’s terrific series featuring lawyer Monty Collins and priest Brennan Burke gets better with every book.”
— Globe and Mail
Praise for Children in the Morning
“This [fifth] Monty Collins book by Halifax lawyer Emery is the best of the series. It has a solid plot, good characters, and a very strange child who has visions.”
— Globe and Mail
“Not since Robert K. Tanenbaum’s Lucy Karp, a young woman who talks with saints, have we seen a more poignant rendering of a female child with unusual powers.”
— Library Journal
Praise for Cecilian Vespers
“Slick, smart, and populated with lively characters.”
— Globe and Mail
“This remarkable mystery is flawlessly composed, intricately plotted, and will have readers hooked to the very last page.”
— The Chronicle Herald
Praise for Barrington Street Blues
“Anne Emery has given readers so much to feast upon . . . The core of characters, common to all three of her novels, has become almost as important to the reader as the plots. She is becoming known for her complexity and subtlety in her story construction.”
— The Chronicle Herald
Praise for Obit
“Emery tops her vivid story of past political intrigue that could destroy the present with a surprising conclusion.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Strong characters and a vivid depiction of Irish American family life make Emery’s second mystery as outstanding as her first.”
— Library Journal , starred review
Praise for Sign of the Cross
“A complex, multilayered mystery that goes far beyond what you’d expect from a first-time novelist.”
— Quill & Quire
“Snappy dialogue, a terrific feel for Halifax, characters you really do care about, and a great plot make this one a keeper.”
— Waterloo Region Record
“Anne Emery has produced a stunning first novel that is at once a mystery, a thriller, and a love story. Sign of the Cross is well written, exciting, and unforgettable.”
— The Chronicle Herald

Corporation Flats, Fenian Street, Dublin.
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Prologue
Shay Rynne
I had two godfathers when I was growing up: one who put people in prisons and one who had spent time in them. Maybe that explains where I’ve been and where I am today. One of my godfathers was Garda Detective Sergeant Colm Griffith, from County Clare. He is class. He is everything a policeman should be. My own father was Thomas “Talkie” Rynne, who got his nickname because, as a little lad, he never shut his gob. His da used to say, “Would you ever be giving our ears a rest? If I wanted to hear somebody talking world without end, I’d take myself off to the talkies.” The pictures, he meant. When my grandda first started going to the films, they were silent. Then they got sound and were the talkies. So anyway, my father, Talkie Rynne, got into trouble with the law, when he lost the head and caused injury to a fella who had slandered him while a crowd of them were in their local, skulling pints. The man had been blackguarding Talkie about being out of work and on the dole — again — and maybe he’d soon be putting the wife out on the street to earn a few quid for the children’s breakfast. Detective Sergeant Griffith made the arrest. He took Da’s rambling, disjointed statement, and when the case went to court, Griffith went easy on the evidence. He knew he couldn’t get up on the witness stand and tell the entire story. These are the things a Garda sergeant could not say in court:
Your Lordship, this man, Talkie Rynne, served time in a prison camp — internment camp — during the Emergency of 1939 to 1945 and came out a different man from the man he was when he went in. He was never the same again. And that’s because he was subjected to a level of brutality that a man does not easily — does not ever — get over. He was flogged by the prison authorities, Your Lordship. Whipped! Had he fallen into the hands of the Nazis? Or some other violent faction in a distant land? No, he suffered this torture one county over from us, in a prison camp in County Kildare. In the Curragh internment camp, Mr. Rynne was known as something of a comical card, a teller of tale tales, which you might guess from his nickname. A grand fella to have at the table of an evening. After the flogging, it was a rare occasion indeed that Talkie Rynne was a grand fella at the table.
DS Griffith could not be a member of the Garda Síochána and get up and say that stuff in court, as if he was a social worker. Or a defence barrister. Even though all of it was true about my father. Even though, like so many of the other IRA men who were kept in the Curragh camp — the lads called it Tin Town — he could barely function when he was released, could barely function in the everyday life the rest of us take for granted. Applying for work, signing on for the dole, even crossing the street in all the traffic, those things were overwhelming. So the detective did the next best thing for a man who had suffered badly and who was still bearing the consequences, a man with five children in a tenement flat. I was the first of those children, born a couple of years after the Emergency, known beyond the borders of neutral Ireland as the Second World War.
Colm Griffith gave his evidence truthfully: yes, Mr. Rynne had given a few digs to his opponent that night in the pub, after much provocation. But Colm made no mention of some other scrapes Talkie had got himself into in those yea