I AM IN BLOOD

Present day: Nathan Jacob's life is coming apart. His adoptive father, whom he adored, has just passed away. His only companion is Esther Gilsenan, a girl he is falling for more and more deeply with every day. But Nathan is grappling with other demons. His obsession with ‘true crime' writing finds him reading into a series of grisly murders that occurred in Dublin's past. Nathan decides to write his own version of these horrific events and enlists Esther's help.

But what is it that is speaking to him down the long spans of time? And what things are being said? Things half-formed and dark that mutter to him from the pages of history and the horrors that took place in Victorian Dublin.
Dublin, 1890: Sergeant George Frohmell of the Dublin Metropolitan Police is a man under pressure. His beloved, bedraggled city has suddenly become the hunting ground for a faceless monster. As the death toll increases, Frohmell must find his man or lose everything. I Am in Blood is a many-layered tale of darkness and bloodshed. It asks the question: Who are we? And most importantly: Do we have a choice?

Joe Murphy was born in 1979 in Co. Wexford, Ireland. In college, he excelled at English, winning several awards and being shortlisted for Young Science Fiction Writer of the Year. Joe studied at University College Dublin where he received 1st Class Hons and a scholarship to complete a Masters in Early Modern Drama. Joe Murphy's ambitious debut novel "1798: Tomorrow the Barrow We'll Cross" was published in 2011 by Liberties Press (Dublin) to excellent reviews: "epic novel of revolution", "a swashbuckling tale" "brilliantly researched and movingly written".