The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
Being brilliant has never been this dangerous ...
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?
Format: Paperback | 384 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.3 | 264g
Publication Date: 20 Jan 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Language: English
ISBN10: 1460755413
ISBN13: 9781460755419
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some damage to the cover including thin creasing along the bottom of the front and back covers, and thin creasing running the length of both the front and back covers, parallel to the spine. All creasing is thin and blends in with the cover artwork, so is not overly noticeable. No holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, and no highlighting of text. A previous owner has written their first name and dated the top-right corner of the first page with a black pen, but no other writing in margins. No missing pages.