A rediscovered classicof Irish literature, this darkly comic tale tells of murder and its consequences. Set in a remotevillage in the northwest of Ireland, Roarty, a publican and former priest, kills his lecherous bartender and buries him in a bog. When Roarty begins to receive blackmail letters, matters quickly spiral out of his control. Alive with the loquacious brio of his pubs eccentric regulars, and full of the bleak beauty of the Donegal landscape, Patrick McGinleys rural gothic novelis a modern masterpiece.