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:

'Brian McGilloway is the author of four critically acclaimed Inspector Devlin police procedurals set in his hometown of Derry.

'This dazzling, labyrinthine debut impresses not only for the authentic depiction of a troubled community and the conflicts of a fallible detective, but also for the intense portrait of the borderlands themselves; as beautiful and terrible as the secrets they keep.'

'McGilloway's Borderlands was one of last years most impressive debuts. Does Gallows Lane pass the feared second-novel test? Easily.' The Times