{"product_id":"the-city-in-darkness-9781472121929","title":"The City In Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the style of Benjamin Black, an evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In  Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen  joining the British Forces. It's unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid  on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and  explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry  Gregory, is working for the IRA. At home for Christmas, Stefan  is abruptly called to Laragh, an isolated mountain town. A postman has  disappeared, believed killed, and Laragh's Guards are hiding something.  Stefan is the nearest Special Branch detective, yet is he only there  because Gregory wants him out of the way? Laragh is close to  the lake where Stefan's wife Maeve drowned years earlier, and when  events expose a connection between the missing postman and her death,  Stefan realises it wasn't an accident, but murder. And it will be a  difficult, dangerous journey where Stefan has to finally confront the  ghosts of the past not only in the mountains of Wicklow, but in Spain in  the aftermath of its bloody Civil War, before he can return to Dublin  to find the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978089304230,"sku":"9781472121929","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781472121929.jpg?v=1656105640","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-city-in-darkness-9781472121929","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}