As the city swelters in a summer long heatwave, a potential gangland war simmers and the land war rages, the bodies of a man and a child are uncovered in Dublin's Phoenix Park.The man charged with uncovered their murderer and the reason for their deaths is Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow. Cynical and frustrated by incompetent superiors, Swallow must navigate the tricky waters of high politics and rising gang tension to uncover the truth.In A June of Ordinary Murders, Conor Brady paints an intimate portrait of a city experiencing huge change, terrible poverty and yet possessed of the same charm and beauty as Dublin does today. In Swallow he has created a character of passion and power.