Why the Curlew Cries by J.M. Lane | Irish Crime Novel

For years, women have vanished around the Ox Mountains. Their disappearances span two decades. There are no bodies, no witnesses and nothing, officially, to connect them.

Garda Gerry Doyle believes there is a pattern. His refusal to let the cases go has cost him his detective’s rank, but not his certainty. His younger partner, Jack Dawson, is one of the few people still willing to listen.

Deep in the mountains, an isolated family still lives by beliefs the rest of Ireland left behind. They believe that not everyone who looks human is human.

To them, the old stories are not stories at all.

They are rules.