The Scholar (Cormac Reilly #2 - Dervla McTiernan
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery
When DS Cormac Reillys girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID, that of Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Irelands most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropy it has funded Emmas own ground-breaking research. The investigation into Carlines death promises to be high profile and high pressure., As Cormac investigates, evidence mounts that the death is linked to a Darcy laboratory and, increasingly, to Emma herself. Cormac is sure she couldnt be involved, but how well does he really know her? After all, this isnt the first time Emmas been accused of murder
