The Death of an Irish Tinker: A Peter McGarr Mystery (Peter McGarr Mysteries)

A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a "Tinker," one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of Desmond Bacon, "the Toddler," brutal king of Ireland's heroin trade. But who was the deceased and why was he killed? The answer lies with a Tinker woman named Biddy Nevins, who may be the only person able to put Bacon away--that is, if Peter McGarr and his crew can get to her before the Toddler does. The chief superintendent of Ireland's Special Crimes Unit, Peter McGarr finds himself battling his most dangerous enemy, Desmond Bacon, the king of the island's heroin trade, who may have slipped up while committing a murder but who is ready to silence the only witness A woman in Dublin flees for her life, pursued by drug dealers. Biddy Nevins, a busker, saw the dealers push a man under a bus. A case for Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr