Book review: Border Angels

by Anthony Quinn

IT’S a truism as much as a cliché — you can’t bury the past. You can bury memories, you can bury bodies, but the pesky past, with all its complications, refuses to disappear, no matter what you do or say.

Country Tyrone-born writer and journalist, Anthony Quinn, knows this, as is obvious in his two crime novels, Disappeared (published in 2012) and his latest, Border Angels, both of which feature a decent man, Inspector Celcius Daly, who is more at ‘home’ with the truths of murder and kidnap and tragedy than living a lie with his wife.