Though The Heavens Fall
Though The Heavens Fall Winner of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel "Emery populates 1995 Belfast so conscientiously and evokes its atmosphere so faithfully ..." -- Kirkus Reviews As…
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Though The Heavens Fall
Winner of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel "Emery populates 1995 Belfast so conscientiously and evokes its atmosphere so faithfully ..." -- Kirkus Reviews As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and "peace walls" segregating one community from another. So, it's as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. But the IRA has called a ceasefire.
But the past is never past in Belfast, and it rises up to haunt them all: a man goes off a bridge on a dark, lonely road; a rogue IRA enforcer is shot; and a series of car bombs remains an unsolved crime. And it's a good time for Brennan's cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election in a future peacetime government. The trouble is compounded by a