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2000s: How do you find the killer who likes to play dead?
Too Close to Breathe
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Frankie Sheehan is on her first case back after being badly injured during a previous murder investigation. At first the case seems fairly straightforward – a woman is found hanged in her own bedroom and everything points to suicide. But there are signs that something more like murder has taken place here.
As Frankie strives to paint a picture of the killer, and their victim, she starts to sense they are part of a larger, darker canvas, on which the lines between the two blur.
How do you find the killer who likes to play dead?
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Dublin
The city provides a background rather than a firm setting for the story yet its the work of the police and morticians here which play a major role in themselves – the chase for justice and the proceedings which follow.
There are mentions of Bray (Co Wicklow) where Costello lives and Kildare where another character has links to. Kilcullen is also noted as being the childhood home of Eleanor
Dublin however is the city where depravity roams and where the back street bars offer a lot more than just a pint, and you end up spending a lot more than just money.
“The ambers and yellows of Dublin’s nightlife play on the windowpane. Silver fog rolls up off the Liffey and into the chill city, a suitable backdrop for the night that’s in it: Halloween”
Bull Island
There might be a crime scene here but there is also a nice little piece of history:
” I know that beyond the whispering grass that brushes my legs in the very sand where Ireland’s last king defeated the Vikings. I know, in the winter, flocks of oyster catchers pick their way through cockles thrown up by the waters of Dublin Bay”
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Destination: Dublin Author/Guide: Olivia Kiernan Departure Time: 2000s
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