The first 8 chapters are available to read online for free. I hope the author doesn’t mind my posting this cover on my blog since he shared it on Twitter recently. I cannot wait to read this book! The first book in the series is The Cold, Cold Groud which was an excellent Irish mystery set during the Troubles. The US release date for The Cold, Cold Ground is November 2012. The plot for the second book in the series goes as follows copied and pasted from Amazon UK Jan 2013 release date and US release date TBA:

Sean Duffy knows there’s no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close. Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of blood – however faint – that always, always connects a body to its killer. A legendarily stubborn man, Duffy becomes obsessed with this mystery as a distraction from the ruins of his love life, and to push down the seed of self-doubt that he seems to have traded for his youthful arrogance. So from country lanes to city streets, Duffy works every angle. And wherever he goes, he smells a rat …