Anthony Quinn - Disappeared

Disappeared

In Northern Ireland’s darkest corner, the Troubles have never ended.

Though bombs no longer rock Belfast, for some the fight goes on. Retired Special Branch agent David Hughes disappears after looking into the previously closed case of Oliver Jordan, who went missing at the hands of the IRA decades ago. Soon after, a former spy is found bludgeoned to death, the day after placing his own obituary in the newspaper. Beneath Northern Ireland’s modern calm, ancient jealousies threaten to rend the country asunder once more.

A Catholic detective in a Protestant nation, Celcius Daly knows too well the agonies of sectarian strife. To solve this string of murders, he must reach decades into the past, confronting a painful history that Ireland would prefer to forget.

"Disappeared is a major piece of work. Eerily tender, a wonderfully wrought classic that is a landmark in the fiction of Northern Ireland. Line up the glittering prizes of mystery. This one is going to take em all."

Ken Bruen

"...the most enthralling thriller I've read in several years..."

Otto Penzler

"Quinn enriches Disappeared with Irish history and he does an excellent job of ratcheting up the tension as this yarn progresses."

The Rap Sheet

"Quinn has developed a plot that immerses the reader into a darkness we have only read about in the papers or seen on the late night news."

The Morris Chair

"Celcius Daly is a decent, hardworking police officer in a world that seems dead-set against him. His hard work and determination to get to the truth, no matter what the costs are, are admirably heroic qualities and make him a most agreeable protagonist."

At the Scene of the Crime

About Me

Anthony Quinn was born in 1971 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and after completing an English degree at Queen's University followed various callings - social worker, counsellor, lecturer, organic market gardener, yoga teacher - before becoming a part-time journalist and full-time father. His short stories have been short-listed twice for a Hennessy/New Irish Writing Award. He was also the runner-up in a Sunday Times New Food Writer competition. Disappeared is his first novel. He works as a reporter in the wilds of County Tyrone. He is represented by Paul Feldstein of the Feldstein Agency.

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25/3/2013

Disappeared nominated for a Strand Critics Award

Disappeared has been selected as one of the five best debut novels of 2012 by book critics from the LA Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The .....>>More Details

12/1/2013

Troubles Tales

A great full page article on Disappeared in the Irish News: "Co Tyrone native Anthony Quinn was a social wor.....>>More Details

12/1/2013

Disappeared in Kirkus Reviews 2012 top ten crime books

Disappeared has been selected as one of the top ten crime books in 2012 at Kirkus Reviews. http://www.kirkusreviews.com/blog/mysteries-and.....>>More Details