The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border between the North and South of Ireland in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girlâe(tm)s finger and an old photograph left where she died. Then another teenager is murdered and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier âe a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated. As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong vengeance and justice and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear. A dazzling and lyrical debut crime novel Borderlands marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin. Brian McGilloways command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut. - The Times A mystery of labyrinthine complexity - Sunday Telegraph