This follow up to Dervla McTiernan’s debut maintains the layered, taut plotting and complex characters that made The Ruins so terrific. The Scholar can be read as a stand alone, although seeing how the recurring characters emerge from book to book adds to the enjoyable reading experience.
As The Scholar opens, it’s several months after The Ruins and DS Cormac Reilly remains stuck in cold case purgatory. He finally lands two active cases, but must tread a fine line when his fiancée discovers the victim in one of them. Reilly’s personal and professional lives collide, and his backstory emerges to produce a fine multi-threaded narrative. Reilly continues to navigate office politics and learns which of his colleagues are police officers at heart, and those who possess different motivations. McTiernan creates several memorable well rounded characters, and I hope to see more of DS Carrie O’Halloran and DC Peter Fisher in future installments.
The mystery at the heart of The Scholar delves into the amoral corporate world, here the pharmaceutical industry and its ties to academia and researchers. Family dynamics add another layer of complexity. This premise, Reilly’s personal and professional challenges, and the roles of the other officers at Mill Street Garda Station all combines into a well written, compelling procedural.
Overall rating: 5 stars.
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This follow up to Dervla McTiernan’s debut maintains the layered, taut plotting and complex characters that made The Ruins so terrific. The Scholar can be read as a stand alone, although seeing how the recurring characters emerge from book to book adds to the enjoyable reading experience.As The Scholar opens, it’s several months after The Ruins and DS Cormac Reilly remains stuck in cold case purgatory. He finally lands two active cases, but must tread a fine line when his fiancée discovers the victim in one of them. Reilly’s personal and professional lives collide, and his backstory emerges to produce a fine multi-threaded narrative. Reilly continues to navigate office politics and learns which of his colleagues are police officers at heart, and those who possess different motivations. McTiernan creates several memorable well rounded characters, and I hope to see more of DS Carrie O’Halloran and DC Peter Fisher in future installments.The mystery at the heart of The Scholar delves into the amoral corporate world, here the pharmaceutical industry and its ties to academia and researchers. Family dynamics add another layer of complexity. This premise, Reilly’s personal and professional challenges, and the roles of the other officers at Mill Street Garda Station all combines into a well written, compelling procedural.Overall rating: 5 stars.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022
This follow up to Dervla McTiernan’s debut maintains the layered, taut plotting and complex characters that made The Ruins so terrific. The Scholar can be read as a stand alone, although seeing how the recurring characters emerge from book to book adds to the enjoyable reading experience.
As The Scholar opens, it’s several months after The Ruins and DS Cormac Reilly remains stuck in cold case purgatory. He finally lands two active cases, but must tread a fine line when his fiancée discovers the victim in one of them. Reilly’s personal and professional lives collide, and his backstory emerges to produce a fine multi-threaded narrative. Reilly continues to navigate office politics and learns which of his colleagues are police officers at heart, and those who possess different motivations. McTiernan creates several memorable well rounded characters, and I hope to see more of DS Carrie O’Halloran and DC Peter Fisher in future installments.
The mystery at the heart of The Scholar delves into the amoral corporate world, here the pharmaceutical industry and its ties to academia and researchers. Family dynamics add another layer of complexity. This premise, Reilly’s personal and professional challenges, and the roles of the other officers at Mill Street Garda Station all combines into a well written, compelling procedural.
Overall rating: 5 stars.
As The Scholar opens, it’s several months after The Ruins and DS Cormac Reilly remains stuck in cold case purgatory. He finally lands two active cases, but must tread a fine line when his fiancée discovers the victim in one of them. Reilly’s personal and professional lives collide, and his backstory emerges to produce a fine multi-threaded narrative. Reilly continues to navigate office politics and learns which of his colleagues are police officers at heart, and those who possess different motivations. McTiernan creates several memorable well rounded characters, and I hope to see more of DS Carrie O’Halloran and DC Peter Fisher in future installments.
The mystery at the heart of The Scholar delves into the amoral corporate world, here the pharmaceutical industry and its ties to academia and researchers. Family dynamics add another layer of complexity. This premise, Reilly’s personal and professional challenges, and the roles of the other officers at Mill Street Garda Station all combines into a well written, compelling procedural.
Overall rating: 5 stars.
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Keeps you in suspense all.the way through
Reviewed in Canada on July 16, 2021
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Another page-turner!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2021
