Murder is murder!  But some murders have the disturbing effect of banging up unfinished business from the past.  This is the problem facing Inspector Glasheen...

Inspector Glasheen stumbles upon a brutal murder which brings up his own childhood demons.

In Watling Town, on the outskirts of Dublin City, in 1964, he has to investigate the death, in bed, of a sixteen year old youth.  It looks to others like an open and shut case of ‘filicide’ – or the killing of a child by his own father.

But Glasheen’s unusual background causes him to see and feel this case differently.  He is, after all only half-Irish.  The other half is American Indian, and although his father brought him back to Ireland when he was just five years old, he has retained a lot of the ways of the Indian: the uncanny capacity for tracking and tracing; for sensing and feeling; for seeing the whole picture. The story begins like this:

24th September 1964

Michael Curran awoke to the sound of the mechanical alarm clock ringing violently, like the bell of a local fire engine. His head was pounding.  Picking up the clock...

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