A body found below a cliff is not what it seems, and a deadly heist is underway in this enjoyable Irish murder mystery

Whilst junior detectives rush to the scene of a potential murder near Roundstone, Connemara, an informant lets on to DCI Mick Hays that a big robbery is about to take place.

With a large part of Galway’s police force mobilised to catch the felons in the act, resources are stretched. Will the robbers walk into the trap? Is the information reliable? Are they sufficiently prepared?

Unresolved, the murder and the heist stand to leave egg on the face of the west coast of Ireland’s finest. And a group of dangerous criminals are set to make off scot-free with the Christmas pay.

It will take serious detective work to convince the chief superintendent that Hays and his team are up to the task in hand. If things go pear-shaped DCI Hays’ upcoming promotion will be jeopardised. That and the reputation of the Garda itself.

Suspenseful and exciting! A specialist murder team track a deadly weapon.

When a ballistics report shows that a gun used in a Glasgow shooting is the same as the one used in a London murder three years previously, DI Nash and DC Moretti are quick on its heels. But they are met with little support from their Scottish colleagues.

Back in London, Nash’s team are disgruntled with their superior’s apparent jolly and the general course of the investigation. And cooperation is scarce. Even the London victim’s wife appears reluctant to help. The rare Beretta is the only clue to the murder, and Nash must find it.

A breakthrough is made when the weapon is connected to an incident in Northern Ireland. Once again Nash must leave her team to their own devices. But will Moretti, left in charge and finding a little too much solace in the bottle, deliver the support she needs?

SHOTS FIRED is the third book by Ian Robinson in a thrilling crime fiction series centring on a specialist London murder team.