Michael McKenna Books In Order
- Simeon’s Bride (1995)
- In Guilty Night (1996)
- The House of Women (1998)
- Unsafe Convictions (1999)
- Child’s Play (2001)
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Simeon’s Bride
When a woman’s skeleton turns up in the small Welsh hamlet of Gallows Cottage, a group of three very different policemen uncovers a two hundred year old conspiracy of silence haunting the guilty and innocent alike.
In Guilty Night
On a freezing November night, 14 year old Arwel Thomas, turns up dead in a railway tunnel outside Bangor, an apparent victim of sexual abuse and a runaway from the local children’s home. DCI Michael McKenna and his colleagues are slowly drawn in to the web of relationships and power struggles surrounding Arwel and his peers in the claustrophobic world of childcare institution, where nothing and no one can be taken at face value and ethical structures bow to expediency and greed. A world in which they find Elias ab Elis and his wife, blessed with worldly wealth, lurking in the shadows, cursed and impoverished by their own dark tragedies. In this dark world McKenna finds families existing in a twilight of ignorance and stupidity and children consigned to the scrap heap of life. Forced to confront his own frailties through his investigations, McKenna must probe the underbelly of this seamy culture in order to get at the truth, however destructive it may be. From the Paperback edition.
Unsafe Convictions
When someone in the town of Haughton batters Trish Stanton Smith into oblivion, drenches her house in petrol and drops a match, the obvious suspect is her ex husband, who abused her mercilessly throughout the marriage. Despite his claim of an alibi, Piers Stanton Smith goes to prison for life. Two years later, when the alibi evidence is unexpectedly confirmed, the investigating officers are suspended from duty and accused of corruption. Superintendent McKenna, who is put in charge of investigating the officers’ case, unravels lies, mischief and hatred…
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