Reading order · 3 books · 2018 to 2020 · Set in Galway
Cormac Reilly Books in Order
Detective Sergeant Cormac Reilly leaves an elite unit in Dublin for Galway, where his new colleagues distrust him and he is handed cold cases. Tense, atmospheric Irish crime fiction from an Irish-born writer living in Western Australia.
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Series facts
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2018 to 2020
- First book
- The Ruin
- Latest
- The Good Turn (2020)
- Setting
- Set in Galway
The reading order
Every Cormac Reilly book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
3 books · Set in Galway
- 1The Ruin2018With Cormac ReillyIn 1993, a young garda, Cormac Reilly, attends a call at a crumbling country house and finds two neglected children and their dead mother.Buy on Amazon
- 2The Scholar2019With Cormac ReillyCormac’s partner, Emma, a scientist, finds the body of a hit-and-run victim outside her laboratory, and the dead woman seems to be the heiress of the company that funds her work.Buy on Amazon
- 3The Good Turn2020With Cormac Reilly and Peter FisherYoung garda Peter Fisher is sent to his father’s seaside village after a disastrous operation, while Cormac investigates corruption in his own station.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read The Ruin, The Scholar and The Good Turn in order.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Cormac Reilly | Peter Fisher | Emma Sweeney |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 The Ruin | LLead | MMajor | MMajor |
| 2 The Scholar | LLead | MMajor | |
| 3 The Good Turn | LLead | LLead | MMajor |
Characters in the Cormac Reilly books
3 characters from Dervla McTiernan’s chart, with the number of Cormac Reilly books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Cormac ReillyDetective sergeant in Galway | 3 | The Ruin 2018 |
| Peter FisherYoung garda | 2 | The Ruin 2018 |
| Emma SweeneyScientist and Cormac’s partner | 3 | The Ruin 2018 |