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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Murder Rule
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'No one is innocent in this story ...

'The unmissable new standalone from the no.1 bestseller of The Good Turn

 

'First Rule: Make them like you.

'Second Rule: Make them need you.

'Third Rule: Make them pay.

'They think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.

'They think I'm working hard to impress them.

'They think I'm here to save an innocent man on death row.

'They're wrong. I'm going to bury him.' (Publication summary)

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  • A short review of this work appears in The New York Times 4 December 2022.

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Works about this Work

Thrillers Sarah Lyall , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 5 June 2022; (p. 16)
— Review of The Woman in the Library Sulari Gentill , 2022 single work novel ; The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel ; The Island Adrian McKinty , 2022 single work novel
Book Review : The Murder Rule, Dervla McTiernan Craig Buchanan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2022;
— Review of The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel

'Another impressive psychological thriller by one of Australia's most talented crime writers.'
y separately published work icon Dervla McTiernan on Crime Fiction and People Who Look down on Genre Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2022 25081290 2022 single work podcast interview

'Dervla McTiernan is a wildly successful crime writer. Her debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback. The second and third installments in the series, The Scholar andThe Good Turn, garnered similar praise. In 2022 she released her first stand alone crime novel, The Murder Rule.' (Introduction)
Strength of Convictions : On Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule” Glenn Harper , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Los Angeles Review of Books , 6 August 2022;
— Review of The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel 'DERVLA MCTIERNAN’s THE MURDER RULE is a legal thriller based around the quest of a young law student (Hannah Rokeby) to prevent the man who ruined her mother’s life from getting out of prison. The novel’s shifts of plot and perspective raise questions of truth that are essential to the story, and they highlight the same kinds of questions about the stories with which we all prop up our own sense of truth and reality. The book is a departure from the Irish Australian writer’s previous work in both genre and setting: while the novels for which she is most known are a trilogy of police procedurals set mostly in the west of Ireland, her new novel is set in Maine and Virginia.' 

(Introduction)
Hail Heroes with Flaws Robyn Walton , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 June 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of Those Who Perish Emma Viskic , 2022 single work novel ; The Island Adrian McKinty , 2022 single work novel ; The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel
Hail Heroes with Flaws Robyn Walton , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 June 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of Those Who Perish Emma Viskic , 2022 single work novel ; The Island Adrian McKinty , 2022 single work novel ; The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel
Strength of Convictions : On Dervla McTiernan’s “The Murder Rule” Glenn Harper , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Los Angeles Review of Books , 6 August 2022;
— Review of The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel 'DERVLA MCTIERNAN’s THE MURDER RULE is a legal thriller based around the quest of a young law student (Hannah Rokeby) to prevent the man who ruined her mother’s life from getting out of prison. The novel’s shifts of plot and perspective raise questions of truth that are essential to the story, and they highlight the same kinds of questions about the stories with which we all prop up our own sense of truth and reality. The book is a departure from the Irish Australian writer’s previous work in both genre and setting: while the novels for which she is most known are a trilogy of police procedurals set mostly in the west of Ireland, her new novel is set in Maine and Virginia.' 

(Introduction)
Book Review : The Murder Rule, Dervla McTiernan Craig Buchanan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2022;
— Review of The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel

'Another impressive psychological thriller by one of Australia's most talented crime writers.'
Thrillers Sarah Lyall , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times , 5 June 2022; (p. 16)
— Review of The Woman in the Library Sulari Gentill , 2022 single work novel ; The Murder Rule Dervla McTiernan , 2022 single work novel ; The Island Adrian McKinty , 2022 single work novel
Dervla McTiernan : A Crime Writer Probing the Complexity of Relationships and the Courage of Good People Kevin Brophy , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 May 2021;
y separately published work icon Dervla McTiernan on Crime Fiction and People Who Look down on Genre Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2022 25081290 2022 single work podcast interview

'Dervla McTiernan is a wildly successful crime writer. Her debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback. The second and third installments in the series, The Scholar andThe Good Turn, garnered similar praise. In 2022 she released her first stand alone crime novel, The Murder Rule.' (Introduction)
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