The Winter Guest
by W.C. Ryan
☆ Shortlisted for the 2023 CWA Gold Dagger
Historical mysteries are popular on the shortlist of this year’s CWA Gold Dagger award. The Winter Guest by W.C. Ryan is set in Ireland just after the First World War, during the Irish War of Independence. It’s a sad, somewhat bleak tale, as an IRA intelligence officer goes to investigate the killing of a former fiancée.
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