ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Hard cases to crack, from a Galway ruin to the west London underworld
A YOUNG man's apparent suicide in Galway brings back a disturbing memory for Detective Sergeant Cormac Reilly in The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Sphere, £8.99).
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