In 1985, as dusk settled over a townland near Dublin during summer, mothers anxiously awaited their children home. However, on that warm evening, three of them did not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrived at the scene, they discovered only one child, Rob Reilly, gripping a tree trunk in terror while wearing blood-filled sneakers. He could not remember any details of his previous activities. Twenty years later, Detective Rob Reilly is now working as a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past hidden. When another 13-year-old girl was found murdered in the same woods, Reilly and Detective Cassie Maddox, his partner and closest friend, find themselves investigating an eerily similar case. With only faint memories of their previous unsolved mystery to guide him, Reilly has the opportunity to unravel not just the case before him but also that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric and complex, Dublin Murders is both captivating and surprising until the very end.
As the investigation unfolds, secrets from Reilly and Maddox's past begin to ...