The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan, TP $22

My book of the year is Dervla McTiernan’s The Scholar. The book is set in Galway, Ireland where McTiernan studied law, although she now lives in Western Australia. The Scholar is actually the second title in the Cormac Reilly series. I know that this might be an impediment to some of our readers, but when we received this title the first book in the series, The Ruin was not available in Canada. The plot deals in part with the impact of big pharma on university research. A most enjoyable read.