Gerald Hansen

Two time zones. Same body count. DI Liam McLaughlin didn't expect his year to be bookended by murder. First came a grim case in Derry-a man found savaged in a field under a full moon, the city alive with rumours. Now, on what was meant to be a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter, death finds him again. On a Nile cruise packed with international tourists, McLaughlin crosses paths with a group of mature students from Derry.
Their leader-lecturer Dr. Maggie McCracken-turns up dead during a nighttime visit to the ancient site of Karnak. Even more unsettling: the death bears eerie echoes of a 1970s murder-mystery film Maggie once screened for her students. Out of jurisdiction, McLaughlin leans on his Murder Investigation Team-D'Arcy, Lyons, Hawkins and Cahill-who continue digging in Derry while he unravels the façade of Maggie's group under the Egyptian sun.
The bodies may be far apart, but the lies feel hauntingly close. Dark, twisty, and shot through with sharp humor, the fifth in the NUMBER ONE Derry Murder Mystery is another masterclass in misdirection, as the team races to catch a killer hiding in plain sight.