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'No one is innocent in this story ...
'The unmissable new standalone from the no.1 bestseller of The Good Turn
'First Rule: Make them like you.
'Second Rule: Make them need you.
'Third Rule: Make them pay.
'They think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.
'They think I'm working hard to impress them.
'They think I'm here to save an innocent man on death row.
'They're wrong. I'm going to bury him.' (Publication summary)
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Dervla McTiernan on Crime Fiction and People Who Look down on Genre
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2022
25081290
2022
single work
podcast
interview
'Dervla McTiernan is a wildly successful crime writer. Her debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback. The second and third installments in the series, The Scholar andThe Good Turn, garnered similar praise. In 2022 she released her first stand alone crime novel, The Murder Rule.' (Introduction)
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Strength of Convictions : On Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule”
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Los Angeles Review of Books , 6 August 2022;
— Review of The Murder Rule 2022 single work novel 'DERVLA MCTIERNAN’s THE MURDER RULE is a legal thriller based around the quest of a young law student (Hannah Rokeby) to prevent the man who ruined her mother’s life from getting out of prison. The novel’s shifts of plot and perspective raise questions of truth that are essential to the story, and they highlight the same kinds of questions about the stories with which we all prop up our own sense of truth and reality. The book is a departure from the Irish Australian writer’s previous work in both genre and setting: while the novels for which she is most known are a trilogy of police procedurals set mostly in the west of Ireland, her new novel is set in Maine and Virginia.'(Introduction)
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Hail Heroes with Flaws
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 June 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of Those Who Perish 2022 single work novel ; The Island 2022 single work novel ; The Murder Rule 2022 single work novel -
Dervla McTiernan : A Crime Writer Probing the Complexity of Relationships and the Courage of Good People
2021
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 May 2021;
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Hail Heroes with Flaws
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 June 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of Those Who Perish 2022 single work novel ; The Island 2022 single work novel ; The Murder Rule 2022 single work novel -
Strength of Convictions : On Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule”
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Los Angeles Review of Books , 6 August 2022;
— Review of The Murder Rule 2022 single work novel 'DERVLA MCTIERNAN’s THE MURDER RULE is a legal thriller based around the quest of a young law student (Hannah Rokeby) to prevent the man who ruined her mother’s life from getting out of prison. The novel’s shifts of plot and perspective raise questions of truth that are essential to the story, and they highlight the same kinds of questions about the stories with which we all prop up our own sense of truth and reality. The book is a departure from the Irish Australian writer’s previous work in both genre and setting: while the novels for which she is most known are a trilogy of police procedurals set mostly in the west of Ireland, her new novel is set in Maine and Virginia.'(Introduction)
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Dervla McTiernan : A Crime Writer Probing the Complexity of Relationships and the Courage of Good People
2021
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 May 2021; -
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Dervla McTiernan on Crime Fiction and People Who Look down on Genre
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2022
25081290
2022
single work
podcast
interview
'Dervla McTiernan is a wildly successful crime writer. Her debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback. The second and third installments in the series, The Scholar andThe Good Turn, garnered similar praise. In 2022 she released her first stand alone crime novel, The Murder Rule.' (Introduction)
Awards
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Maine,
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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Virginia,
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,