Silence (34 page)

Authors: Anthony J. Quinn

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was born in Northern Ireland’s County Tyrone and majored in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. After university, he worked a number of odd jobs – social worker, organic gardener, yoga teacher – before finding work as a journalist and author. His first novel,
Disappeared
, was published by Head of Zeus in 2014.

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www.anthonyquinnwriter.com

About the Inspector Celcius Daly Series

1 – Disappeared

Disappeared
introduces Celcius Daly, a Belfast Police Inspector laden with flawed judgment and misplaced loyalties. One of 2012’s top ten crime novels.

A retired Special Branch Detective succumbing to early-stage dementia disappears from his remote home in rural Northern Ireland. An ex-intelligence officer is tortured to death. But why was his obituary printed in the local paper before his death? A son seeks his father’s long-lost body and vengeance against those who murdered him. A stone-cold killer stalks the outskirts of Belfast. But at whose behest is he hunting his targets? And why?

All are connected by a single strand spun out of the past... but as Inspector Celcius Daly knows, the past is never dead… it’s not even past.

Disappeared
is available
here
.

2 – Border Angels

A charred corpse and a set of footprints in the snow lead Celcius Daly into the twilight world of people trafficking.

Inspector Celcius Daly is hunting for a missing woman, Lena Novak, who mysteriously disappeared one winter’s night along the Irish border, leaving in her wake the corpses of two men.

Daly finds himself hooked together with a prostitute and a hit man in a life-or-death chase. His investigation leads them deep into border country, a wild terrain of disappearing lanes and blown-up bridges, abandoned ghost-estates and thick forests – the ultimate refuge for anyone who does not want to be found.

Border Angels
is available
here
.

3 – Silence

Father Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting evidence of murder, mass murder – a year-long killing spree of unparalleled savagery that blighted Ireland’s borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death: victims, weapons, wounds, dates – and somehow, amid the forest of pins and notes, he had discerned a pattern…

So why did the Father Walsh deliberately drive through a cordon of policemen and off the road to his death? Why, when Inspector Celcius Daly arrives at the scene, does he find Special Branch already there? And why is his mother’s name on the priest’s map?

The past poisons the present and Daly’s life will never be the same again.

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First published in the UK in 2015 by Head of Zeus Ltd

The moral right of Anthony J. Quinn to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN (HB): 9781784971236

ISBN (TPB): 9781784971243

ISBN (E): 9781784971229

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