The Murder Rule
Dervla McTiernan
HarperCollins €19 Cork-born lawyerturned-writer McTiernan sets her latest thriller in the US, rather than in her native
Ireland. Law student Hannah
Rokeby is ruthlessly fixated on becoming part of an Innocence Project crusade to free convicted rapist and murderer Michael Dandridge. It soon becomes clear that her true motivation is to sabotage the campaign rather than to help it. But why? This is a thoroughly engrossing mystery, let down a little by a credibility-straining courtroom finale.