When 19-year-old Patricia Curran is murdered in a village close to
Belfast, it's erroneously reported that she has been shot whereas
she's actually been stabbed 37 times, this extraordinary blunder
setting the tone for the whole investigation. Various 'facts' are
taken on face value instead of being double-checked; Patricia's
reputation is shredded as various opinions are vouchsafed as to her
sexual behaviour. Then the murder inquiry team is cold-bloodedly
manipulated by Sir Richard Pim as he advises that 'there will be no
further interviews with the Curran family' while also exhorting
them to find the perpetrator with all speed. Patricia's father was
a judge, her brother Desmond a barrister and her mother a lady of
leisure - but the judge was deeply in debt through gambling, even
handing over the deeds to 'The Glen', the family house, as
collateral to his turf accountant. Only the Currans' housekeeper,
Mrs Crangle, heard the frequent and bitter rows between mother and
daughter upstairs at 'The Glen', during which the judge and his son
carried on with their meals in the dining room totally unconcerned
about the furore. Chief Inspector John Capstick from Scotland Yard
is assigned to the case, only to be confronted by a tangled web of
deceit and intrigue. Eoin McNamee has written a chilling and
disturbing novel based on one of the major miscarriages of justice
in post-war history that will continue to haunt the reader long
after they've laid the book aside. (Kirkus UK)
'At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19
year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to
the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had been
the victim of an accidental shooting. In fact a subsequent
post-mortem revealed that she had been stabbed thirty seven times.'
Eoin McNamee's wonderful novel, which is based on one of the
greatest miscarriages of justice in recent history, is at once a
gripping thriller and a danse macabre through a shadowy world of
corruption and sexual intrigue - a darkly lyric narrative of white
mischief in post-war Ireland, of false accusation and savage
murder, presided over by the haunted, tragic figure of Patricia
Curran.
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