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'Galway 1993: Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget. Two silent, neglected children - fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack - are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs, their mother lies dead.
'Twenty years later, a body surfaces in the icy black waters of the River Corrib. At first it looks like an open-and-shut case, but then doubt is cast on the investigation's findings - and the integrity of the police. Cormac is thrown back into the cold case that has haunted him his entire career - what links the two deaths, two decades apart? As he navigates his way through police politics and the ghosts of the past, Detective Reilly uncovers shocking secrets and finds himself questioning who among his colleagues he can trust.
'What really did happen in that house where he first met Maude and Jack? The Ruin draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland and asks who will protect you when the authorities can't - or won't.' (Publication Summary)
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In May 2018, WritingWA announced that The Ruin has been optioned for film by Hopscotch Features.
In August 2019, Books+Publishing announced that Hopscotch Features had been joined by Irish actor Colin Farrell's production company, Chapel Place Productions: the adaptation of The Ruin will be the first film for the company. The producer is expected to be Lee Madigay, who produced The Favourite.
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- Sound recording.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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At Home with Dervla McTiernan
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
19327174
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Dervla McTiernan's novel, The Rúin (2018), was a critically acclaimed international bestseller. In Australia, The Rúin won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction. In America, it won the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback, and was on the Amazon US Best Book of the Year list.
'Dervla continued the crime trilogy with The Scholar (2019) and The Good Turn (2020, both of which are also best sellers around the world. The screen rights have been snapped up by Hopscotch Features.'
Source: The Garret.
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y
At Home with Dervla McTiernan
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
19327174
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Dervla McTiernan's novel, The Rúin (2018), was a critically acclaimed international bestseller. In Australia, The Rúin won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction. In America, it won the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback, and was on the Amazon US Best Book of the Year list.
'Dervla continued the crime trilogy with The Scholar (2019) and The Good Turn (2020, both of which are also best sellers around the world. The screen rights have been snapped up by Hopscotch Features.'
Source: The Garret.
Awards
- 2019 winner Barry Awards — Best Paperback Original
- 2019 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- 2019 winner Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2019 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
- 2019 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
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Galway,
Galway (County),
cIreland,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1993
- 2013