When Sorrows Come

Belfast, 2am, Tomb Street. A young man lies dead in an alley. Cracked ribs, broken jaw, fractured skull. With the Celtic Tiger purring and the Troubles in their death throes, Detective Sergeant John O'Neill is called to investigate. Meanwhile O'Neill's partner, DI Jack Ward, a veteran troubles detective, is receiving death threats from an unknown source...

When Sorrows Come is a brutal expose of the criminal underworld in the new Northern Ireland, a place where the dead are not all created equal.

“[Brings] a Henning Mankell-style realism to the genre”

- Sunday Times (Ireland)

Praise for Dark Dawn: You are never going to escape the past in a place like Belfast. When a dead teenager turns up kneecapped ... no one but Acting DS John O'Neill seems particularly bothered. O'Neill has a lot to prove and McGuire handles it brilliantly. - Daily Mirror

Belfast-born MATT MCGUIRE has worked as a barman, an encyclopedia salesman and a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is currently based at the University of Western Sydney. His first novel, Dark Dawn, was published in 2012.

Belfast, 2 a.m., Tomb Street. A young man lies dead in an alley. Cracked ribs, broken jaw, fractured skull. Kicked in the head, too many times to count. With the Celtic Tiger purring and the Troubles in their death throes, Detective Sergeant John O'Neill is called to investigate. Meanwhile O'Neill's partner, DI Jack Ward, a veteran Troubles detective, is receiving death threats from an unknown source. He has a list of suspects, bad men with records to match, and scores to settle. Ward needs to find out who's making the threats and put a stop to them, before they follow through on their word. The second novel in the DS O'Neill series, When Sorrows Come is a brutal expos

Belfast, 2am, Tomb Street. A young man lies dead in an alley. Cracked ribs, broken jaw, fractured skull. With the Celtic Tiger purring and the Troubles in their death throes, Detective Sergeant John O'Neill is called to investigate. Meanwhile O'Neill's partner, DI Jack Ward, a veteran troubles detective, is receiving death threats from an unknown source... When Sorrows Come is a brutal expose of the criminal underworld in the new Northern Ireland, a place where the dead are not all created equal.

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