Declan Cleary's body was never found, but everyone believes he was killed for informing on a friend over 30 years ago. Now the authorities are following a tip-off that he was buried on the isle of Islandmore in the River Foyle. Instead, they uncover a baby's skeleton, and it doesn't look like death by natural causes.
Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1974, and teaches English at St Columb's College, Derry. He lives near the Irish borderlands with his wife and their four children. He is the author of six previous crime novels: Little Girl Lost, The Rising, Bleed A River Deep, Gallows Lane, Borderlands and The Nameless Dead. Little Girl Lost was the first novel to feature DS Lucy Black, who returns in Hurt.
