Cauley, and the two concoct an ingenious plan to get the town talking, aided and abetted by a cast of eccentric characters, some from beyond the grave. But who would have had reason to get rid of her for good?ĭetermined to find answers, Mahony solicits the help of brash pot-stirrer and retired actress Mrs. It seems that his mother, Orla Sweeney, had left quite an impression on this little town-dearly beloved to some, a scourge and a menace to others. His uncannily familiar face and outsider’s ways cause a stir among the locals, who receive him with a mixture of curiosity (the men), excitement (the women), and suspicion (the pious). But when he receives a tip one night at the bar suggesting that foul play may have led to the disappearance of his mother, he decides to return to the rural Irish village where he was born to learn what really happened twenty-six years earlier.įrom the moment he sets foot in Mulderrig, Mahony’s presence turns the village upside down.
“A delicious, gratifying and ageless story.” - New York Journal of BooksĪbandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. “ supernaturally skillful debut.” - Vanity Fair
" fast-paced yarn that nimbly soars above the Irish crime fiction genre Kidd clearly knows very well." - New York Times Book Review
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