Detective Abbie Kearney is called to the scene of a grisly murder in the parish church in her old Buffalo neighborhood. The area, called the 27th county (Ireland has 26 counties) because of all the Irish who live there, is referred to locally as simply "The County." Fiercely loyal to their Irish heritage and to each other the residents close ranks when outsiders try to infiltrate their insular community. Although she was raised there, as the adopted daughter of storied police officer, John Kearney, Abbie is regarded as an outsider because of her birth parents’ shortcomings and because she dared to leave the neighborhood to attend Harvard and came back to assume a position in law enforcement, an area that residents consider to be a man’s domain. While she is not of The County, she understands The County and when a
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