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For the many fans of Dervla McTiernman's Cormac Reilly series we have good news. The third book in the series, The Good Turn, is finally available in North America. We are expecting it at the end of August. Please let us know if you would like a copy set aside for you.

Mo Hayder

The British mystery author died on July 27th, 2021 at the age of 59. She had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2020. I must admit I have never read any of her books as they are way too dark and violent for me. According to Mark Billingham's obituary in the Guardian these dark novels reflected events in her life. While working in Tokyo, in her twenties, she witnessed the sudden deaths of three strangers in quick succession, a heart attack in a coffee shop, a workman falling off scaffolding and a snake bite. These events followed on the heels of the murder of one friend and the rape of another. She published ten novels during her lifetime, beginning with Birdman in 2000 and there are two more to be published posthumously. The Book of Sand, will be published in January 2022 under the nom de plume Theo Clare.

While researching Mo Hayder's life I discovered that she played Miss Belfridge, who was Mr. Rumbold's secretary, in the last two seasons of the British sit-com Are You Being Served?