Dervla McTiernan's novel, The Rúin (2018), was a critically acclaimed international bestseller. In Australia, The Rúin won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction. In America, it won the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback, and was on the Amazon US Best Book of the Year list.

Dervla continued the crime trilogy with The Scholar (2019) and The Good Turn (2020), both of which are also best sellers around the world. The screen rights have been snapped up by Hopscotch Features.

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