The Scholar

 

Author: Dervla McTiernan 

Publisher: Sphere

Year: 2019

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The Scholar is the second book in Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly series. DS Reilly hasn’t had many active casing since transferring to Galway. One night, his girlfriend calls him in a panic. She has discovered the victim of a hit and run accident. He rushes to the scene and realizes it was no accident. It was murder. The case is complicated because Reilly’s girlfriend found the body, it involves the granddaughter of a rich and powerful head of a big pharmaceutical company some academic chicanery. 

The who done it part wasn’t hard to figure out, but it’s still an enjoyable police procedural. Even though this is the second in the series, there’s enough backstory to fill in the blanks if you haven’t read the first book.