Welcome to Sin City on the Liffey…

Betrayal on every level is the order of the day in a city where an ordinary woman is pushed beyond her limits against dark forces she only gradually comes to understand. 

When the dead body of teenage street artist, Stevie Hennessy, is pulled from the river, his best friend, Kitty Lee, insists it’s not another homeless addict’s misadventure – and Connie Ortelius foolishly gets involved.  

Burnt-out Connie has abandoned her ruined past to run Dublin’s greasiest café for her ancient Aunt Aggie. But along with the Silver Bullet Café, she discovers a clutch of readymade enemies as well as a vengeful coffee machine. Warned off by the guards and threatened by gangland racketeers, soon she’s in a race to unlock the secret of a danger about to destroy the city’s most vulnerable people. As intrigue, treachery and more bodies mount up, the story spirals rapidly from tea and gur-cakes to the ninth circle of hell. This is a place where no-one can be trusted… and your only choice for starters is – the Truth Du Jour.

'The Devil Looks After His Own' is a gritty contemporary crime novel, with a heart of hell.