Black December (DCI Brendan Moran #1): An addictive and compelling crime thriller

The past isn't over. Yet.

DCI Brendan Moran, world-weary veteran of 1970s Ireland, is recuperating from a near fatal car crash when a murder is reported at Charnford Abbey.

The abbot and his monks are strangely uncooperative, but when a visitor from the Vatican arrives and an ancient relic goes missing the truth behind Charnford's pact of silence threatens to expose not only the abbey's haunted secrets but also the spirits of Moran's own troubled past . . .

The DCI Brendan Moran series

• Black December

• Creatures of Dust

March 2015

• Death Walks Behind You

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