The Unquiet Grave, by Dervla McTiernan

A career crossroads looms for Detective Cormac Reilly in this fourth tale of policing in Galway. Tourists have found a body in a peat bog, not an historic relic but a missing local head teacher. Ex girlfriend Emma’s husband has gone missing in France and she needs Cormac’s support in getting his disappearance properly investigated, which dredges up old feelings and old hurts. Protégé Peter Fisher is emigrating to Australia for better pay and lifestyle, but will he finds policing any more satisfying in another country? The detective must decide whether to take a promotion that will put him even more on the outer within the Garda. The twisty-turny murder investigation feeds satisfyingly into the cops’ choices on their futures, but while the Emma storyline serves as a vehicle for moving on it was clearly only that and is anticlimactic.