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- ISBN 9780755332458
- Weight: 205g
- Dimensions: 113 x 176mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A superbly entertaining and suspenseful debut crime novel from Irish Benedictine Monk Andrew Nugent.
When a Dublin High Court judge is found dead - slumped in his chair, his neck snapped by a well aimed kick - many would say he got what he deserved. But Inspector Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power soon unearth a far more dangerous and complex case than simple revenge. There's the handsome, fair-haired young man whose flights of fancy and secret liaisons lead them down many a dark alleyway; the judge with an unusual but lucrative hobby; the strange connection with a rural community; the good-looking tae kwon do teacher.
Elegant, charming and clever, Andrew Nugent deflates the pomposity of the law, the police force and Irish rural mythology in a novel as ingenious as it is witty and compelling.
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. He is the author of a non-fiction work The Slow-Release Miracle. The Four Courts Murder is his first novel.
