The Devil Cross (A Blade Macken Mystery Book 2)
Book Details
Author(s)David M. Kiely
PublisherThe Parsifal Press
ISBN / ASINB0073TBXPC
ISBN-13978B0073TBXP6
Sales Rank1,141,783
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
"Above Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, the stars of the constellation Leo pulsed brightly. Blade didn't know — or care — that the brightest of these stars are called Regulus and Denebola; they mark, respectively, the fore- and hindlegs of the celestial lion.
"Nor could Blade have known that two other lights had recently positioned themselves between these limbs.
"They were smaller than stars and moved more rapidly across the heavens. Now they were preparing to align themselves within the constellation. They were the planets Mercury and Venus.
"In another dodecatemory of the sky, directly opposite, Uranus and Neptune had already entered the constellation of Aquarius."
An octogenarian retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in the little town of Carlingford, close to the border that divides Ulster from the Irish Republic.
A child goes missing in Warrenpoint, County Down – the third young boy to have disappeared in the locality in the space of a month. Is there a connection?
Blade Macken, detective superintendent with Dublin's élite Special Branch, is assigned to the case.
But forces higher than the law are attempting to thwart his investigation – and that of his assistant, Detective Sergeant Orla Sweetman, who finds both herself and her family under threat from enemies unknown.
Nothing is what it seems at first blush in this complex riddle. To solve it, Blade and Orla have to dig back into history – and expose a very murky Vatican secret, as well as a plot to harness cosmic forces, as the millennium approaches.
"Nor could Blade have known that two other lights had recently positioned themselves between these limbs.
"They were smaller than stars and moved more rapidly across the heavens. Now they were preparing to align themselves within the constellation. They were the planets Mercury and Venus.
"In another dodecatemory of the sky, directly opposite, Uranus and Neptune had already entered the constellation of Aquarius."
An octogenarian retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in the little town of Carlingford, close to the border that divides Ulster from the Irish Republic.
A child goes missing in Warrenpoint, County Down – the third young boy to have disappeared in the locality in the space of a month. Is there a connection?
Blade Macken, detective superintendent with Dublin's élite Special Branch, is assigned to the case.
But forces higher than the law are attempting to thwart his investigation – and that of his assistant, Detective Sergeant Orla Sweetman, who finds both herself and her family under threat from enemies unknown.
Nothing is what it seems at first blush in this complex riddle. To solve it, Blade and Orla have to dig back into history – and expose a very murky Vatican secret, as well as a plot to harness cosmic forces, as the millennium approaches.
