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  2. INTRODUCINGKATIE MAGUIRE
  3. ALSO BY GRAHAM MASTERTON
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Epigraph
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  59. About the Author
  60. An Invitation from the Publisher

‘This car, luckily, was only partially burned out. I’d say that the rain started to pelt down soon after it was set alight, and put it out. We may be able to lift some fingerprints off the steering wheel and the door handles, and the officer who found it says he saw a spent cartridge case lying on the floor in the back.’

‘That’s brilliant news,’ said Katie. ‘Don’t you just love it when criminals are that careless? You’d think that after all the crime shows they’ve seen on the telly they would have the brains by now to clean up thoroughly after themselves. Look at that Denny McCarthy. We’re still no near to finding out who killed him, are we, after nearly a year? Shot in his own house, sitting in his own bath, with both barrels of a twelve-bore shotgun, and whoever shot him didn’t leave a single microscopic speck of evidence.’

‘It didn’t help that nobody could think who would want to kill him, though, did it? Everybody said that Denny was the friendliest fellow you could ever meet. Even his ex-wife.’

‘Well, keep at it, Robert,’ said Katie. ‘The chief super thinks the Riordans were most likely responsible for Billy Hagerty getting shot, and I’m reluctant to say it but I tend to agree with him. What worries me is that the O’Flynns could well decide to get their revenge, and soon. I’m only hoping that Muireann will be able to tip us off early if there’s any hint of them planning a payback. I’ve had more than enough of this tit-for-tat killing. They’re worse than kids in a playground, do you know what I mean?’

Detective Inspector Fitzpatrick’s phone pinged. After he had frowned at it, he said, ‘O’Sullivan’s traced the Honda. It was stolen five days ago from the car park up at the airport.’

‘Five days ago? Now that could be interesting. Five days ago the Riordans wouldn’t have known that Justice Quinn was going to be killed and that Donal Hagerty’s sentencing hearing would have to be postponed. So apart from him being Donal’s brother, why would they have targeted Billy Hagerty? Of course he might have given them another reason that we haven’t heard about, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was Thomas O’Flynn they were after, and Billy Hagerty just happened to be standing in the way.’

‘Still and all,’ said Detective Inspector Fitzpatrick, ‘I’m sure you wouldn’t exactly be sobbing into your coffee if they had hit Thomas O’Flynn.’

‘Robert – I don’t want anybody killing anybody in Cork, whether they’re out-and-out scumbags or whether they’re pure as the driven cocaine. I don’t want to see myself on the front page of the Sun ever again, and I mean ever – except if I’m appointed commissioner.’

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