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Casey Hill
Forensic investigator Riley Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew. She's arrived in Ireland to drag the Garda forensics team into the 21st-century plus keep tabs on her Irish-born father who's increasingly seeking solace in the bottle after a past tragedy involving Riley's younger sister, Jess. But a brutal serial killersoon puts paid to that. A young man and woman are found dead in a hotel room, the gunshot wounds on their naked bodies suggesting a suicide pact. But as Riley and the team dig deeper, and more bodies are discovered, they soon realise that a twisted murderer is at work, one who seeks to upset society's norms in the most sickening way imaginable…
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Author
Casey Hill
Pages
432
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2011-07-07
ISBN
1849833737 9781849833738
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"This is one of those odd books you can’t really review. The most valuable thing Reilly—let it be noted that I borrowed this book to hear how a local(ish) Black author could disagree with the left narrative—offers here is to remind us that all media is biased, that the Left and the Right are both wrong, that data can be bent to serve a purpose, and that there are often other factors that should be controlled for when reporting social statistics. For example, racial disparity gaps narrow when controlling for single parenthood. We science-minded don’t design experiments, only control for a handful of variables and chalk the rest up to some nebulous unknown force. It’s something worth having in the back of your head when you read and listen to the news. If we ever hope to have a shot at solving the issues of this country, we have to be able to identify and acknowledge what they are. And they cannot be solved by partisan politics, because the problems—and solutions—are much more complicated than either “side” would ever admit."
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