Slaughter’S Hound: A Harry Rigby Mystery - Softcover

"Fans of Ken Bruen in particular, and noir fans in general, should get on board for this exceedingly bleak ride through Sligo. . . Relentlessly brutal actions, rampant corruption, and scamming are all described in prose both scabrous and poetic." -- Publishers Weekly "Publishers Weekly"

"Burke has always been known for black humor, and he has found a wonderful new outlet for it in Harry Rigby." -- Booklist "Booklist"

Harry Rigby is right there, an eye-witness when Finn Hamilton walks out into the big nothing nine stories up, but no one wants to believe Finn is just the latest statistic in Ireland's silent epidemic. Not Finn's mother, Saoirse Hamilton, whose property empire is crumbling around her; and not Finn's pregnant fiance, Maria, or his sister Grainne; and especially not Detective Tohill, the cop who believes Rigby is a stone-cold killer. Welcome to Harry Rigby's Sligo where death comes dropping slow.

Studded with shards of black humor and mordant wit, Slaughter's Hound is a gripping noir from one of the most innovative voices in Irish crime fiction. In the twisted moral landscape of his surroundings, Harry must find a way free of his own heartache and pain to discover the truth about Finn's death and what is really going on...