Preserve the Dead (UK)/The Forgotten Ones (US) has been out for a week or two now and the early reviews have started coming in:

Here's a reading of an early story by Brian for BBC Radio 4's The Big Chill season from 5 years ago. It was initially called The Stolen Child but, being broadcast at a time when a high profile missing child case featured in the news, the name was changed to The Lost Child. Brian adapted elements of the story in one of the subplots of the fifth Devlin novel, The Nameless Dead.

Brian was recently interviewed by Mark Patterson on BBC Radio Foyle about his new novel, Preserve the Dead and why he's decided to return to teaching.

The third Lucy Black novel, Preserve the Dead, will be published on August 6th in the Uk and Ireland and August 11th in the US, under the title, The Forgotten Ones. The book is set during the City of Culture 2013 celebrations in Derry and concerns the recovery of an embalmed body from the River Foyle, the discovery of the remains of a homeless man in a dumpster and the subsequent investigations into the two cases.  

In the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Mark Lawson meets novelist Brian McGilloway, whose books explore the long shadows of the Troubles, and talks to him and other authors from Belfast about the wave of crime writing that the peace process has provoked.