The Boy with the Crow

Mason Maloney keeps a skull above his monitor and the world at a safe distance.

In his attic room in Cork, Mason has code, rituals, a green cap, and enough isolation to survive the day. Then Cassandra O'Neill is pulled from the River Lee, and the death he tells himself is none of his business begins to reach for him anyway.

Cassandra belonged to another life: art money, old favours, Arty Armitage, and the kind of attention Mason has spent years avoiding. Detective Bria Friday has questions. T...