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The City of Lies
The City of Lies | Michael Russell
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Dublin 1940. An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland's east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are found in their shuttered, burned-out villa. Dispatched from Special Branch to investigate, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie soon finds himself caught in a web of Irish, British and German Intelligence - all playing against each other, all watching each other, and all plagued by rogue operators they can't quite control, as the certainty grows that Hitler is about to invade England. And then, Stephen is sent to Berlin on a sensitive mission. His journey home becomes a dangerous pursuit in which no one can be trusted and the information he carries puts his life on the line.
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The City of Lies | Michael Russell

One of the concepts of this series is that it frequently features a famous Irish historical crime, but fictionalises it - changing the location, date and victims. This time it was the La Mancha murders which happened in Malahide in 1926.

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Part of a series about Stefan Gillespie, a Guard (Irish policeman) during the Emergency (as WW2 was called in Ireland). He‘s investigating several cases in Ireland, but his duties also lead him to Berlin.

This is an interesting series, set in Ireland (and various other countries) during the 30‘s and 40‘s. Part historical fiction, part thriller, part detective fiction. Stefan is a pretty sympathetic character too.