DEAD DOGS

“Well-written and full of heart-pounding suspense, this proves that Murphy is an impressive talent.” —The Sunday Times

Seán Galvin isn't like the other children. While they play and laugh and keep on growing up, Seán doesn't. Instead he does stuff to things. Things like cats and dogs. Bad stuff.

Seán has only one friend, the nameless narrator who tells their story. Both boys are outsiders in their small-town world. Their young lives revolve around sport and school. That is until Seán does something appalling and the boys have no choice but to tell someone they should be able to trust. What they uncover is a secret far more awful than anything Seán is capable of: they witness a murder. (Or do they?) Because of their previous behaviour, no-one believes them. Their little rural town becomes a place of cold scepticism and barely-hidden conspiracy. (But is there really a conspiracy?)

The novel's unreliable and increasingly unhinged narrator embarks on a mission to prove that they saw what they saw. Dead Dogs is a novel that leaves the reader guessing right up to its wrenching climax and beyond.