It’s never over till it’s over…
Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire comes from a family with a history of the police. Not a profession her brothers would take up, but it pleased her father no end when she joined the force. Paul, her husband, seemed to have fallen on difficult times, so too, after the loss of their child, had their relationship. None of which got in the way of the enthusiastic reception they always received from loyal Sergeant, the black Labrador. However Paul was getting himself into ever more tricky ‘get rich quick’ schemes, perhaps too close to the local villainy.
Her years of experience meant nothing much happened in and around Cork without her knowing who were the local movers and shakers – some quite violent shakers at that. And it wasn’t always the case that she reported everything she saw or heard.
Her latest case involved violence that had as much to do with the past as the present. The trouble her husband brought home was entirely due to the present.
He’d been mixing business and pleasure. The business was with a local villain, helping him to someone else’s goods. And now he’d disappeared. The pleasure came when Paul had helped himself to that same someone else’s woman for one night. Of course he denied it.