A Love to Kill for Conor Corderoy Book
by Conor Corderoy

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mucker09AUTHOROct 2016

Corderoy writes with the skill and assurance of a thriller writer at the top of his game, and he assuredly deserves a place among the great names in the genre. But, it is not actually the thriller aspect off the plot that I liked so much about this book. Certainly it is tense, very sexy, suspenseful and gripping. But much more than that it tells a human story we are all familiar with.

It tells the story of a person afraid of his own emotions. A man at war with his own feelings. This book is rich in metaphors. It is a book about people searching for something enduring and lasting, that will change their lives and set them free. And yet throughout the entire story we are never sure just what it is they are searching for. Each one of them gives his or her search a special meaning: power, freedom, security. As though each one of them were searching for something different. Yet they are all searching for the same thing. Something which remains nameless until the very end.

Chief among these searchers is Murdoch, cynical, funny and tough. Quintessentially masculine, he is convinced of his own self-sufficiency; convinced that he needs no one, and that women and love will just bring him endless trouble. He is not wrong. Murdoch finds love, in several forms, and he also finds a heap of trouble. But with his classic subtlety and skill, Corderoy makes us see that this very love and the trouble it brings is exactly what Murdoch has been hungry for from the start. This has been his search. But Corderoy takes s another step further. He makes us see that that Murdoch possessed all along the very thing he was searching for. but he had deliberately blinded himself to it.

And this is what sets Corderoy in a category apart. He can enthrall us and thrill us with a first class, erotically charged thriller, but the reason the characters and the story grip us so much is that under the surface he is telling is a story about real human feelings.

What he is telling us here is that we are all searching for love, but frequently, when we have it, we are blind to it. He is also telling us that though we dream of a love that will set us free and bring us joy, all to often, love is the most painful thing we can experience and yet liberating

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Storyline

For Murdoch, women are bad news. Trying to stay alive in war-torn Andalusia, tracking a vanishing femme fatal, hunted by The Brotherhood, the last thing he needs is love…

In Liam Murdoch’s world there is no room for love, only the thrill of the game and the fast buck. So when a fascinating client persuades him to be the bagman in a blackmail payoff and he winds up with a bag full of fifty grand in cash and a box whose contents are worth more than that, Murdoch smells the chance to make a stash.

As Europe slides into bloody chaos, Murdoch must travel to war-torn Andalusia in search of the elusive Mary-Jane Carter and the even more mysterious Sinead Tiernan. He must get the answers only they can provide about the box and the sinister Brotherhood of the Goat, who are hunting for it. But once there, what Liam finds is the last thing he needs—love—and his world turns upside down. Instead of chasing cash, he’s fighting to save the life of the woman he loves.

Suddenly nothing and nobody is what they seem to be, and Liam finds himself fighting not only a mysterious enemy he cannot understand, but also his own turbulent feelings. He must battle to save a priceless treasure for humanity and the woman he’s learned to love from a fate far worse than death.