Winterland

ALAN GLYNN’S new novel covers territory readers of Irish noir usually associate with Declan Hughes or Ken Bruen. And like Hughes, there are shady deals involving property, former IRA or INLA gunmen working as bouncers or fixers.

The action centres around the mistaken killing of a young thug called Noel Rafferty.

When uncle, Noel Rafferty, is soon dispatched to meet his maker our not very credible sleuth, Gina, cousin and niece of the dead man, starts to get very worried and is prepared to enter a dangerous world.