Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday May
6, 2025. We will be discussing, The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. This is
the first book featuring Cormac Reilly, a detective in Galway, Ireland.
The book description from the author’s website is, “Responding to a call that took him to a decrepit country house, young Garda Cormac Reilly found two silent, neglected children – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lay dead upstairs. Since then Cormac’s had twenty high-flying years working as a detective in Dublin, and he’s come back to Galway for reasons of his own. As he struggles to navigate the politics of a new police station, Maude and Jack return to haunt him. What ties a recent suicide to that death from so long ago? And who among his new colleagues can Cormac really trust? Betrayal is at the heart of this unsettling small-town noir and the Ireland it portrays. In a country where the written law isn’t the only one, The Ruin asks who will protect you when the authorities can’t – or won’t.”
We will be meeting in the Conference Room and on Zoom. For
more information, please see Sara at the Reference Desk.