Snapshots - Softcover

'Michael O'Higgins is a man of considerable talents ... Perhaps the ultimate accolade for authenticity is the description once given by the CIA of a book about its activities as "a novel but not fiction". This gritty thriller about the Dublin crime scene in the 1980s is in this mould. --Sean Farrell, Irish Independent

'O'Higgins has drawn on his experiences as a courtroom advocate and journalistic witness to lend depth and perspective to Snapshots, his debut novel. A gangland tale with elements of police procedural and legal thriller, the book is an impressive achievement, as rich in social observation as it is in narrative drive.' --Sunday Times

'The novel excels both as a police procedural and a legal procedural, where the author's insights into trials makes for entertaining and gripping reading ... He has crafted a pacey, smartly-written, authentic crime novel-come legal drama.' --Irish Examiner

Dublin, 1981. One cop. One curate. One hardman. One boy. When a brutal attack on a prison officer puts these four on a collision course, the outcome will be as startling as it is unsentimental. Gritty, authentic and emotionally charged, Snapshots is at once a taut crime thriller and a reflection of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most destructive transgressions are committed behind closed doors.