The murder of Mark Aiken still hangs over Peter Falkner, his nephew, who has finally been acquitted after three trials. It is up to Con Madden to wade through such diverse clues as the limping men and the missing fishing rod to get to the bottom of things. -- The Mystery Lover's Companion
Maurice Walsh was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary in 1961 and worked for The Irish Times in Dublin and Belfast before becoming a foreign correspondent in Central America during the revolutionary upheavals of the 1980s. Later he reported for the BBC as a correspondent and documentary from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. He has lived in Managua, Santiago and Mexico City. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, the New Statesman and many other newspapers and magazines.
He teaches holds a PhD from the University of London and teaches journalism at Brunel University. He was Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2001 and Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2010/11.