Alan Glynn is an Irish writer, a master of psychological detective fiction. His debut novel, Areas of Darkness, served as the basis for the 2011 thriller of the same name, directed by Neil Berger, famous for the film The Illusionist, and starring Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Abbie Cornish. And if the action of "Dark Areas" took place in New York, where Glynn worked for several years in the magazine business, then in "Winterland Corporation" he returned to his native Dublin, with amazing insight predicting the imminent end of the recent economic boom that we are now we observe. Gina Rafferty is a young independent woman trying to launch her own business - a software company. But nothing could prepare her for a chain of tragic events - the death of her nephew, and then her older brother, within one day of each other. And if the death of his nephew, petty bandit Noel Rafferty, did not particularly surprise anyone, then with his older brother, also Noel Rafferty, the story is completely different: how could a serious businessman, one of the top officials in a large construction company, get behind the wheel drunk and crash? The police are quite happy with this version of events, but not Gina. Her instinct tells her that this is not a tragic coincidence, but links in one chain, that someone tried to pass off a contract killing first as a gang war, and then as an accident. And Gina is determined to get to the bottom of the truth...