Critiques en avant-première

“I’ve witnessed many sordid things in my life. As a stenographer at the Criminal Courts of Justice, I thought I’d seen how low a human being might stoop. But one week into O’Malley v O’Malley and I’d decided there was nothing uglier than a bitter break up.” Stenographer Beatrice Barrington is back and working in the family law courts in Dublin when a friend seeks her help. Georgina O’Donnell’s husband, Andrew Dalton, has been murdered and gardaí are keeping her in the dark. Georgina thinks Beatrice has influence with the gardaí and might assist her to find some answers. Beatrice feels great sympathy for Georgina and her three children and agrees to do what she can. She seeks the assistance of retired detective Gabriel Ingram, who now has a lodger in Number 9 Oxmantown Road, a young woman with her own secrets. Together Beatrice and Gabriel begin to uncover Andrew Dalton’s past and when a stranger visits who says he is an old friend of her husband’s, the pressure becomes too much for Georgina and Beatrice finds herself trying to protect her friend and her family. But who is she protecting them from?