An audio book set in Cork.
A policeman is taken from his family, his head chainsawed off and a whistle put in his blowpipe. His wife has a car accident killing her 3 y.o. daughter.
A businessman is shot in his house. He's been setting up investment schemes for OAPs, keeping most of the money.
Undercover policeman Michael has penetrated a drug gang. To keep his cover he has to sleep with the gangster's fat sister Gwynneth. He's uncovered and taken hostage. A pretty lesbian policewoman goes into the gang's pub to find clues. Gwynneth picks her up too.
There are rumours about football matchfixing. The murdered policeman had been investigating corruption in the prison service. There's dog-fighting. A female detective, Katie, owns a dog that's been attacked as a warning. Her partner Connor is a dog-warden. He sets light to a dog-harmer's house not realising that the man's inside. He proposes to Katie, who doesn't give an answer. She discovers that he was the arsonist. He confesses to the police
Michael's found unharmed, which surprizes the police. His girlfriend has been threatened.
She discovers that 5 whistles from a display of 7 were stolen from a music shop. She decides to choose new, young police for the investigative team - less chance of them having been corrupted.
Another (ex?) policeman, John Lacy, is beheaded in front of his 13 y.o. son Aiden. 3 more police about to give evidence against colleagues, and all in safe houses, are beheaded. All have a whistle. All seemed to have been killed by the same people though they're all involved with different types of crime.
Michael defects. To prove his loyalty he has to behead someone from the enemy gang. He does.
Katie sleeps with a female colleague. She's done so before. She discovers that the people in the house that Connor set alight had already been shot. She agrees to marry Connor.
Katie sees the business man's girlfriend with a football team manager. The businessman's will leaves all the money to her, but it's a poor forgery. Katie thinks her father may have used his old gun to kill the dog-fight organiser. She gets it checked and discovers that it was used to kill the businessman who'd tricked her father out of her life savings. He kills himself.
She announces she's a whistleblower, as bait. She's captured by the gang. Michael is told to behead her. Michael resists, and is killed. Katie is saved, and discovers that her boss is the criminal boss.
Characters are introduced by descriptions of their attractiveness, age, clothes and smell (aftershave/perfume is identified if possible). I like the writing style and the colourful similies - "fit as a butcher's dog"; "I could eat a scabby baby through a tennis racket", etc.
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