Mark O'Sullivanin jännärissä selvitellään rikkaiden ihmisten välisiä ihmissuhteita Dublinin kaduilla ja kodeissa: Crocodile tears (Transworld Ireland, 2014; ISBN 978-1-848-27156-2).
Kirjasta tuli kumma kyllä mieleen Cormoran Strike -dekkarien meininki, ehkä johtuen siitä että poliisi Leo Woods on saman tapainen haavoittunut sankari, jolla on ongelmia riittämiin, vähempikin riittäisi. Varsinainen rikostarina tarjoaa käänteen jos toisenkin, ja tässäkin vähemmän olisi saattanut olla enemmän.
In the freezing winter of 2010, with the Irish recession in full flow, property tycoon Dermot Brennan is found dead at his Dublin home. Leading the murder investigation is fifty-six-year-old Detective Inspector Leo Woods, an embittered former UN peacekeeper with a drug habit, a penchant for collecting masks and a face disfigured by Bell's Palsy. DI Woods meets his match in Detective Sergeant Helen Troy, a bright and ambitious but impetuous young policewoman with a troubled family. A host of suspects quickly emerge - Brennan's estranged son; two of the dead man's former business associates with grudges against him; a young man whose life was ruined after his house, built by Brennan, was flooded; an arrogant sculptor who may or may not have been having an affair with Anna Brennan (and with their neighbour); and an ex-pat American gardener. Together, Woods and Troy weave their way through this tangled web to get to the shocking truth
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