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The Convictions of John Delahunt
by Andrew Hughes🔍 The Convictions of John Delahunt — Read More 🔍
- Places: Dublin
- First published: November 4, 2011
- Language: english
- Publisher: Pegasus Books
- Author: Andrew Hughes
- Format: hardcover, 352 pages
- Genres: ireland, crime, historical, thriller, fiction, adult, mystery, cultural
- Release date: June 15, 2015
- ISBN: 9781605987941 (1605987948)
About The Book
Beautifully observed, seductive, and laced with dark humor, a gripping historical thriller — set in 1840s Dublin — about a man who betrays his family, his friends, his society and, ultimately, himself.
Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad death in a city riven by poverty, inequality and political unrest, but this murder causes a public outcry. For it appears the culprit — a feckless student named John Delahunt — is also an informant in the pay of the authorities at Dublin Castle. And strangely, this young man seems neither to regret what he did, nor fear his punishment. Indeed, as he awaits the hangman in his cell in Kilmainham Gaol, John Delahunt decides to tell his story in this, his final, deeply unsettling statement…
Based on true events that convulsed Victorian Ireland, The Convictions of John Delahunt is the tragic tale of a man who betrays his family, his friends, his society and, ultimately, himself. Set amidst Dublin’s taverns, tenements, courtrooms, and alleyways and with a rich, Dickensian cast of characters, this enthralling, at times darkly humorous novel brilliantly evokes a time and a place, and introduces a remarkable new literary voice.
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