The Scholar (Cormac Reilly, #2) in Aussie Readers

Mar 19, 2019 PattyMacDotComma rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: aa, australian-author, kindle, mystery-crime-thriller, ireland-or-irish-authors, arc-netgalley-done, fiction

4★
“Money didn’t keep you safe, she’d known that since she was a little girl. Without position, status, power, protection, what was she but just another pretty girl, floating around Cannes or Marbella?”

Carline was beautiful, rich, and smart. So smart she was working on her thesis at her grandfather’s renowned laboratory where our Emma was headhunted to work. Emma’s the girlfriend of our Cormac, handsome Detective Sergeant Cormac Reilly of the Irish Garda (police) who moved from Dublin to Galway w ...more

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Sep 18, 2018 Brenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, arc, aussie-authors, 2019-release, mystery, read-on-kindle, net-galley, own-read

After responding to the call from his partner, Dr Emma Sweeney, DS Cormac Reilly arrived at the scene of the young woman’s body that Emma had stumbled across. The deserted grounds of the university where Emma had been heading to the laboratory seemed a strange place for the unknown young woman to have been. But it was when a security ID was found in her pocket that the case took a sinister turn. Perhaps it wasn’t the simple hit-and-run that it had first seemed…

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Nov 14, 2019 Josh rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read_2019, borrowed_books, crime, audio_books

The Scholar follows a tried and true formula of police procedural tied with the suspect being known to the lead investigator. Whilst I genuinely wanted to see how the story unfolded, I wasn't blown away by anything in it and much prefer Dervla McTiernan's novella The Sisters. Cormac as a character lacked any real depth while Emma, his partner and the person who stumbles across the dead body to kick start proceedings didn't do a whole lot for me either (though I did enjoy the snippet of a backsto ...more

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Feb 22, 2021 Tien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, ireland

I'm not keen on the female narrator's voice for Cormac; it just felt forcedly put-on as a male voice. It felt off and put me off a little.

The book itself was brilliant. I thought the first layer of mystery was rather predictable but it's just the first & outer layer, isn't it? There was a lot more to that which I couldn't even tell where author was going to take. ...more

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Feb 09, 2020 Tracey rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime, fiction, mystery, 2020

Following on from The Ruin, things are not looking good for Cormac Reilly at the start of ‘the Scholar’. He is still assigned to cold cases and his skills are being underutilised but an opportunity soon comes his way with an overworked colleague offloading some of her cases. When his partner Emma calls in a hit and run outside the University where she works. Cormac has a chance to investigate a case from start to finish. Yet, things soon get complicated and could Emma be the main suspect?
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Mar 09, 2019 Nikki Sims-Chilton rated it really liked it

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I had never heard of this book nor the author – I chose it based on the story-line – a young girl undertaking her PhD. I have been there done that but thankfully my story was a little different! Since receiving the book my social media has been flooded with the book and the author and I wish I had discovered her sooner. Having not read her first novel I thought I might be behind the eight ball on a few things ...more

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