On a cold December morning in 1841, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. But when Dublin learns why John Delahunt committed his vile crime, the outcry against him leaves no room for compassion. Though his fate is sealed, this feckless Trinity College student - who became a secret informer for Dublin Castle - seems neither to regret what he did nor fear his punishment. Based on true events that convulsed Victorian Dublin and still seem shocking to us today and shot through with dark humour, 'The Convictions of John Delahunt' is a gripping, chilling portrait...
On a cold December morning in 1841, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. But when Dublin learns why John Delahunt ...
'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM
1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry and civil unrest, torn between evangelical and rationalist dogma.
Amid the disquiet, a young nursemaid in a pious household conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn. Rumours swirl about the identity of the child's father, but before an inquest can be held, the maid is found dead. When Abigail Lawless, the eighteen-year-old daughter of...
'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM
1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event ha...
