Father Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting evidence of a yearlong killing spree, unparalleled savagery that blighted Ireland's borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death-victims, weapons, wounds, dates-and somehow, amid the forest of pins and notes, he had discerned a pattern. So why did Father Walsh deliberately drive through a cordon of policemen and off the road to his death? Why, when Inspector Celcius Daly arrives at the scene, does he find Special Branch already there? And why is Daly's mother's name on the priest's map?
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Anthony Quinn is an Irish author and journalist. Born in Northern Ireland’s County Tyrone, Quinn majored in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. After college, he worked a number of odd jobs—social worker, organic gardener, yoga teacher—before finding work as a journalist. He has written short stories for years, winning critical acclaim and, twice, a place on the short list for the Hennessy Literary Awards for New Irish Writing. His book Disappeared was nominated for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel, and Kirkus Reviews named it in their list of 2012’s Top 10 Best Crime Novels. It went on to be picked as one of the best books of the year by the Times (London) and the Daily Mail, and long-listed for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Quinn was picked as Libraries Northern Ireland Writer in Residence in 2016, and is a recipient of an Arts Council Artists Career Enhancement Bursary award.
Caroline Lennon, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a theater, film, radio, and television actress. She was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, and trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.