BOOK CLUB: The Scholar

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Author: Dervla McTiernan
ISBN: 9781460754221
RRP: $32.99
Publication Date: 18 February 2019
Publisher: Harper Collins
Copy: Courtesy of the Publisher

Dervla McTiernan is an author who jumped straight to the watch list of many readers I know after they loved The Ruin, which is still clamouring for attention from my towering TBR pile.

Synopsis from the Publisher’s website:

When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway University late one evening, she calls her partner, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him.

A security card in the dead woman’s pocket identifies her as Carline Darcy, a gifted student and heir apparent to Irish pharmaceutical giant Darcy Therapeutics. The multi-billion-dollar company, founded by her grandfather, has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropy – it has funded Emma’s own ground-breaking research. The enquiry into Carline’s 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 couldn’t be involved, but as his running of the case comes under scrutiny from the department and his colleagues, he is forced to question his own objectivity. Could his loyalty to Emma have led him to overlook evidence? Has it made him a liability?

I really look forward to reading both of the books by Dervla McTiernan but in the meantime I can’t wait to hear what our members thought.

Dervla McTiernan can be found on Facebook, Twitter and her Website.

The Scholar is published by Harper Collins and is available now where all good books are sold.

Thanks to Harper Collins 15 of our Beauty and Lace Club members will be reading The Scholar so please be aware there may be spoilers in the comments below.


14 thoughts on “BOOK CLUB: The Scholar

  1. I have not yet read Dervla McTiernan’s first book, The Ruin, but after reading The Scholar I am certainly hoping to read it soon. The story in the The Scholar follows on from events in the first book, but I enjoyed reading this book as a standalone. I found it very written, with lots of plot twists keeping me intrigued – some of them I had worked out, and some of them I hadn’t! It was certainly a page-turner.

    Thank you to Beauty and Lace and Harper Collins for the opportunity to read this book.

  2. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review The Scholar, by Dervla McTiernan. Immediately prior to reading this book, I read the author’s debut novel, The Ruin, which was absolutely wonderful. Thus, I was left me with high expectations of The Scholar, and I definitely wasn’t disappointed.

    The Scholar once again centres around DS Cormac Reilly, to whom readers were introduced in The Ruin. When Cormac’s partner, Emma, finds the body of a young woman on the university campus where she works, Cormac finds himself involved in a high-stakes murder investigation, with both his career and his personal life on the line. Dervla McTiernan has an excellent ability to construct characters with depth, and I enjoyed this aspect of the book as much as I enjoyed following the twists and turns of the plot. The Scholar, like The Ruin, is a page-turner and, while I predicted one aspect of the plot, there were many more aspects that I didn’t predict. I’ve recently learnt that there will be a third book in this series and I’m now anxiously awaiting its arrival!

  3. The Scholar follows on from The Ruin, a book that I really, really enjoyed. And I enjoyed The Scholar just as much. I found myself falling deep into the story, and putting myself into each character’s shoes. There were plenty of twists and turns, and enough characters to love and hate. Each character is completely unique, and I constantly found myself wondering what would happen next. I really enjoyed this book, and I’m looking forward to Dervla’s next book!

  4. Dervla McTiernan,
    I loved loved loved The Scholar .
    This book had many twists and turns and unexpected incidents.
    I loved the characters in the book and the story that you were telling.
    This was a light hearted crime story without gorry explanations.
    I now know why many of my friends enjoyed reading The Ruin.
    Going to buy that book tomorrow.
    Keep up the awesome story telling. Looking forward to reading your next book.
    This is a great story line for a film.
    Congratulations on another successful hit.

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