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    Border Angels

    By Anthony Quinn

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    On the Irish border, Inspector Celcius Daly investigates human trafficking and a scorched corpse
    The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is a rugged place: cold, windswept, and dark. For the girls brought here from Eastern Europe, it may as well be a war zone. Put to work in a farmhouse brothel near Dunmore, the women are forced into a living hell. One night, a pimp takes one of them for a ride. She is just planning her escape when the car explodes. The next morning, there is nothing left but the pimp’s charred body and the woman’s footprints in the snow.

    As his forensics specialists turn their attention to the burned corpse, Police Inspector Celcius Daly obsesses over the footprints. Where exactly did the woman come from, and where did she go? It is the sort of question asked only in the borderlands—between North and South, between life and death.

    Border Angels is the 2nd book in the Inspector Celcius Daly Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9781480436015
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    Anthony Quinn

    Anthony Quinn (b. 1971) is an Irish author and journalist. Born in Northern Ireland’s County Tyrone, Quinn majored in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. After college, he worked a number of odd jobs—social worker, organic gardener, yoga teacher—before finding work as a journalist. He has written short stories for years, winning critical acclaim and, twice, a place on the short list for the Hennessy Literary Awards for New Irish Writing. His book Disappeared was nominated for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel, and Kirkus Reviews named it to their list of 2012’s Top 10 Best Crime Novels. Quinn also placed as runner-up in a Sunday Timesfood writing competition. Border Angels is his second novel, the sequel to Disappeared, which also features Inspector Celcius Daly. Quinn continues his work as a journalist, reporting on his home county for the Tyrone Times. 

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    • 5/5
      Border Angels – Stunning!Border Angels by Anthony J. Quinn is the stunning follow up to his first Inspector Celcius Daley thriller in the brilliant debut in Disappeared. From what he began in Disappeared he has taken a shot gun to what he wrote blew it away and come back with something even better. Disappeared was not just my crime thriller of the year but I was in the exalted company of The Mail and The Times. Border Angels knocks his previous Inspector Daley Thriller into a cocked hat!Inspector Celcius Daley is based in Armagh the county town for the border country that in the times of the troubles was often referred to as bandit country where the snipers were always on duty. Since the peace the Police Service of Northern Ireland in Armagh has had its fair share of economic troubles with people smuggling to add to the fuel and tobacco smuggling. At the same time money is flowing in to various areas of the border through peace funding.Lena Novak a Croatian brothel worker has disappeared at the same time as Jack Fowler, a former IRA man, a developed under investigation dies in mysterious circumstances. The former leaders of the IRA are worried that Fowler’s death might shine a light on some of their current dealings. While at the same time the leader of the East European Mafia, Mikolajek, is running round Armagh threatening those who put his business in danger. The IRA also brings back a former killer from Spain to help find Fowler’s money and remove any threat to them Irish or Croatian.Celcius Daley knows that Lena Novak is the key to all that centres on what is happening in the border country, but he is competing with the IRA and the East Europeans to find Lena. He finds himself unwittingly at times working with Lena to find the truth but Lena trusts nobody especially men. His investigation takes him further in to the border country in what becomes a life or death race against time. Lena uses the country to her advantage as she really does not want to be found but is not afraid to lead the men after her to where she has power for a change.All this is going on as the politics of the new Northern Ireland rumbles around them and Daley’s commanding officer is the supreme number cruncher who cares more about reports than catching Lena. He is the commanding officer who does not really understand policing outside of the Station and certainly not an odd ball like Celcius Daley.The prose in Border Angels is so lyrical one could imagine the burr of Irish accents as you read the imagery it gives off is that of a hard country, a confusing country where the answer may be right but not necessarily correct. Quinn’s writing is persuasive and he lays out the deep ambivalence that hangs around Northern Ireland since the peace process and those who were once terrorists are now business men. His descriptions are haunting and unflinching of a harsh country that is coming to terms with its new none violent life.Disappeared was good Border Angels is even better and I cannot recommend it highly enough.