{"product_id":"madeline-goes-west-thomas-kennedy-9798232827205","title":"Madeline goes West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadeline goes West\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight humour mixes with a Detective Thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Detective Madeline Curtis is assigned to a remote part of the West of Ireland to investigate a possible serial-killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadeline had track record with the drugs squad before she was transferred to the murder squad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnmarried, she has one son, Dara, and another on the way. Laura, her cousin, together with Laura's partner Grace, accompany Madeline so as to provide domestic back up and child minding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer arrival in the West causes ripples within the local drug smuggling enterprise. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLord Roche, descendant of the Norman invasions hundreds of years ago, has his estates, but is also very discreetly the local drug lord.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelly, the local detective, also wants her to follow the trail of a 'mother and child scheme' operated by a local priest to send illegitimate children to the USA for adoption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Roche, a teen son of the local Lord Roche, has got a local farm girl pregnant. She is put into the scheme and Peter tries to rescue her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Kelly is murdered things go pear shaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn course of her investigations, Madeline visits a Convent of a Silent Order of nuns where pregnant single girls are held pending childbirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is drugged and restrained and has a 'one night stand' with Lord Roche before she is drugged again and taken away to be murdered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Dublin Drug Dealer has planned a major drug smuggling operation, and he moves in on Lord Roche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrugged, kidnapped and the subject of a murder plot, Madeline must fight for her freedom and is in a murderous rage over the way Lord Roche betrayed her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798232827205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d","brand":"Thomas Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50664880963839,"sku":"9798232827205","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/madeline-goes-west-thomas-kennedy-9798232827205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}