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When Mariana Rivas arrives from Spain to work as an au pair in the Dublin home of the Mac Converys, Garda Inspector Fionn Mac Convery tries to seduce her. In the course of avoiding Fionn, Mariana experiences the mean streets of Dublin city and meets some of the characters who in his ambitious rise in the police force have been damaged by him. There are suspicious links with Mac Convery and the murder of the father of the taxi driver Sam Sinclair whom Mariana befriends; and perhaps equally tragically is Mac Convery’s hand in the death of the homeless Tina whom he was supplying with stolen cocaine in return for sex. These connections begin to cohere as Mariana, together with Mac Convery’s maligned wife and a vengeful Sam, set out to find justice.
Genre: FICTION / Generaljust published
Garda Inspector Fionn Mac Convery spoke softly as he interviewed Mariana Rivas for the au pair position. He interviewed her on Skype and Mrs Mac Convery and their two children waved to her. He asked her if she was a smoker.
‘No,’ she said. The inspector smiled.
She was to mind a boy and a girl in their home in Stillorgan on the south side of Dublin. Their house was called St Monica, which Mariana thought was nice because Monica was her mother’s name. The boy was four and looked so cute with his black curls and light blue eyes, like his father. He was called Ruairí, and the little girl Doireann was three and fair-haired like her mother. The children had been in a crèche but when they employed Mariana, Inspector Mac Convery would take them out. ‘It will be right to have them in their own home and cared for,’ the inspector said.
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Portuguese
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Translation in progress.
Translated by André Weber
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by Iván Ochoa
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Author review: Excellent work. |
