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2000s:Hurt is a human emotion and a criminal minefield too
Hurt
What you need to know before your trail
A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line in late December. Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is called to identify the body but it’s not going to be easy – the only clues to the dead teenager’s last movements are stored in her mobile phone and on social media – and it soon becomes clear that her ‘friends’ were not as trustworthy as she thought.
Lucy does her job as best she can but this one is not going to be easy – she is still haunted by the memory of the child she failed to save, and the killer she failed to put behind bars. And with a new boss scrutinizing her every move, she is determined that – this time – she will leave no margin for error.
Travel Guide
Visiting Derry
Derry’s a small city. Everyone knows everyone else someone says in the novel.
“The Belfast to Derry train was so slow a journey most people took the bus.The line had been promised an upgrade for years. They were still waiting.”
St Columb’s Park
The moon hung low over the tops of the thick-limbed sycamores above him. To his left, the lights of the city seemed to wink at their own reflection off the river’s surface
Gobnascale, the Waterside
Kay lives here and it’s also the nationalist area between the hard-line unionist of Irish Street and the interface where the red, white and blue paint on the kerbstones change to green white and orange ones. Kay’s house is a terrace and the end one of four with a a scrap of a front garden.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Hurt
Author/Guide: Brian McGilloway Destination: Derry (Londonderry), Northern Ireland Departure Time: 2000s
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