Out Of Jurisdiction: The Last Of Maggie (The Derry Murder Mysteries Book 5)

A very different setting. A very familiar crime.

DI Liam McLaughlin expected sun instead of rain, ruins instead of reports, and a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter. What he didn’t expect—on a Nile cruise packed with international tourists—was to bump into a group of mature students from Derry.

Then their leader—lecturer Dr. Maggie McCracken—turns up dead during a nighttime visit to the ancient site of Karnak. Just like that, the holiday becomes a murder investigation. Even more unsettling: the death bears eerie similarities to a 1970s murder mystery film Maggie once screened for her students—a detail McLaughlin can’t ignore.

He may be out of jurisdiction, but his Murder Investigation Team—D’Arcy, Lyons, Hawkins and Cahill—aren’t. From back in Derry, they dig into Maggie’s past and the hidden tensions within her close-knit group, while McLaughlin watches the façade crack under the heat.

The setting may be ancient. The clues may be modern. But the lies are timeless.

Murder doesn’t care where you are. And McLaughlin never forgets how to see it.

Dark, twisty, and shot through with sharp humor, the fifth Derry Murder Mystery is another masterclass in misdirection, as the team races to catch a killer hiding in plain sight.