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Some Service to the State

By: Aidan McQuade
Narrated by: Pauline Lynch, Paddy McGennety
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The year is 1925. In the borderlands of a newly partitioned Ireland, a doctor new to Northern Ireland begins a search for a missing patient, a young girl who has fallen pregnant.

Meeting a wall of silence, she enlists the help of a local, a former IRA volunteer recently released from jail. Their enquiry brings them into contact with a community still suffering from the wounds of civil war. More worrying for them, they find they are beginning to rattle skeletons that some powerful people would prefer went undisturbed.

As they slowly begin to unravel the truth of the girl’s fate, they find that the traces they are following lead to some crimes more monstrous that they ever previously considered.

©2023 Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd (P)2025 Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Thriller & Suspense
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An interesting story about Ireland’s past that still feels very relevant. Loved the characters and the intelligent message. Felt contemporary though set in the past. Will definitely watch out for more by this author.

Thoughtful and intelligent

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I have been honoured to be a small part of the journey seeing this from draft to publication. And a helluva of a journey it’s been. From his debut novel The Undiscovered Country to this one Aidan McQuade is honing his art to the enth degree. Bring on more!!!

Loved the story and what wonderful narration

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