She studied corporate law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the Law Society of Ireland, and practiced as a lawyer for 12 years. Dervla McTiernan’s debut novel, The Ruin, is a critically acclaimed international bestseller. Absolutely THRILLED to pieces about this. I can't determine how much of the momentum that kept me hooked was the story itself, and how much the dynamite voice work. The Sisters is a gripping new thriller from one of the most exciting voices in crime fiction. Thank you, Dervla McTiernan, for creating such realistic, human characters that I really want to watch them interact and grow. By: Dervla McTiernan Narrated by: Aoife McMahon Series: The Cormac Reilly Series, Book 0.5 Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins Release date: 09-05-19 Language: English Amazon.com: dervla mctiernan the sisters. Cormac's move to Galway is looking increasingly a mistake. Irish / Australian author Dervla McTiernan’s third novel The Good Turn (Harper Collins 2019) builds on her crime series featuring Detective Cormac Reilly, after the success of her previous books The Ruin and The Scholar. No. Another brilliant book by Dervla McTiernan in the Detective Sergeant Cormac O'Reilly series. Two sisters climbing the ranks of Dublin’s criminal justice system. Home; Mail Order; News & Reviews; Events; Contact Us I had been looking at Dervla McTiernan books for a while so was thrilled to find this prequal and I have to say I found it a very good listen that would make me try the next in the series. Also by Dervla McTiernan. If I ever become rich (probably from being the world’s foremost online book-reviewer) I am buying a yacht and it is going to be named Aifric’s Athenaeum. A prequel to the Cormac Reilly series, it is set about ten years before The Ruin and features Carrie Ryan as a young Garda constable, and her older sister Aifric, a newly-qualified junior barrister. The Sisters is a mysterious police procedural and runs just over three hours. The 2019 sequel is titled The Scholar. An Amazon Best Book of July 2018: Dervla McTiernan is an author whose star is on the rise. Carrie Ryan is a detective in the series, but in The Sisters, she is working her way up in the police force and she is rooming with her sister, Aifric, who is a barrister and trying to make a place for herself in her position. In this prequel to the international best seller The Ruin, set 10 years prior, bright-eyed Carrie Ryan is at the very start of her career. My new commute is long and painful. ... See all books by Dervla McTiernan. Plus Emma has moved to Brussels on an increasingly lengthy 'short term' contract. Recently I picked up The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan, narrated by Aoife McMaon. All McTiernan's two series books have met with considerable acclaim in all parts, and THE SISTERS is very loosely (by the lightest of threads) connected to these. Flagged as a prequel to McTiernan's acclaimed THE RUIN, THE SISTERS is an audible only novella, set 10 years before the first Cormack Reilly book THE RUIN, which was followed by THE SCHOLAR. The only positive aspect is that my auditory crime-book consumption has shot through the roof. 336 talking about this. The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan My rating: 3 of 5 stars The narrator, Aiofe McMahon, delivers an outstanding performance of a somewhat flawed short story. Two sisters climbing the ranks of Dublin’s criminal justice system. Throughout November, we'll be reading Dervla McTiernan’s “The Ruin” for book club. These are amazing and special and deserve to be used the world over.