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Michael Russell

The City of Lies

By Michael Russell - Published 2017

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Set in Ireland in 1940, the fourth book of the Stefan Gillespie series finds him embroiled in the search for the murderer of a ...Read Review

The City in Darkness

By Michael Russell - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

In the lead up to Christmas 1939 and with World War Two beginning across the Irish Sea, the Special Branch in Dublin appear more ...Read Review

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