The strange and brutal murder of a young African man in Dublin reveals the dark practices of twisted killer... Shad, a young African man, is attacked and left for dead on the Dublin Mountains. He crawls to the nearest house and raises the alarm, but he later dies in hospital. Inspector Quilligan and Molly Power, of the Irish Police Force Murder Squad, launch an inquiry into this deeply disturbing murder. Was Shad the victim of a racist attack, sadism, a punishment, or some mysterious sacrificial ritual? His younger brother, Jude, is grief-stricken and mystified by Shad's cruel death. He swears a solemn oath to find his brother's killer, even if it costs him his life...
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Praise for Andrew Nugent's The Four Courts Murder Press -- *** 'A rip-roaring read' -- Irish Examiner 20060808 'Carries the reader along from its start right to the surprising and shocking denouement' -- Irish Independent 20060823 'The author, a former lawyer who is now a Benedictine monk, has an elegant, witty style... and entertaining story with nice touches of humour' -- Sunday Telegraph 20060801 'It would take an iron will not to find oneself swept along by the pace at which the story is told' -- The Irish Times 20060801 'An erudite, witty and altogether delightful debut, full of characters laced with eccentricity and Irish charm' -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) 20060801
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Andrew Nugent lives in Ireland and is a former practising trial lawyer who now, as a monk of the order of St Benedict, is Prior at Glenstal Abbey, a boys' school in Limerick. He worked for some years in a monastry in Nigeria, West Africa and has spent time in Israel, Chicago and New York.
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