A Hunt in Winter

A Joe Swallow Mystery

by Conor Brady

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Pub Date Oct 10 2017 | Archive Date Sep 26 2017

Crooked Lane Books

Historical Fiction | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

In Dublin, newly promoted detective inspector Joe Swallow’s life looks to be taking a turn for the better. In addition to his promotion, he’s settled into a comfortable arrangement with his landlady and paramour, Maria Walsh. That is, until his newfound peace is chaotically uprooted when a series of violent attacks against women lead to an outbreak of panic and fear. Things on the homefront are about to change in an unexpected way.

In London, Charles Stewart Parnell tirelessly pursues the Irish cause for Home Rule. While the British are eager to discredit the Irish parliamentary leader and quash the growing movement towards independence, Swallow’s conflicted loyalties pull him in different directions.

As he continues his hunt for a terrifying killer, Swallow has no choice but to traverse this volatile political scene in A Hunt in Winter, Conor Brady’s thrilling third Joe Swallow mystery.

Advance Praise

Praise for the Joe Swallow mysteries:
"The second case for the talented, complicated Swallow again spins a fine mystery out of political corruption in 1880s Dublin."
―Kirkus on The Eloquence of the Dead

“Brady weaves a police procedural that does full justice to the complex nature of the social, political and criminal labyrinth that was Dublin in the summer of 1887. He paints a vivid picture of the city as it bakes beneath the unrelenting sun, employing Joe Swallow's sharp eye and the character's ambitions as an amateur painter to deftly sketch both its landmarks and its less salubrious corners… Swallow himself is very much in the mould of the classic fictional policeman, a man ostensibly dedicated to upholding law and order and seeking out justice, even if, as he points out, ‘the statue of blind Justice' at Dublin Castle ‘topped the archway with her back to the city.'”
―The Irish Times on A June of Ordinary Murders

“As in the best crime fiction, the city itself is here a kind of character―and it's a Dublin we haven't seen a great deal of in recent fiction… An absorbing read, cleanly written, beautifully structured and thrillingly vivid… Brady has done an excellent job of conjuring the febrile atmosphere of the city as it lurches and stumbles its way towards the War of Independence.”
―Sunday Business Post on A June of Ordinary Murders