Nine Strings To Your Bow: Love, Loss, and Tradition in Rural Ireland: A Tale of Duty, Honor, and Family Bonds

by Maurice Walsh

In Maurice Walsh's gripping novel, 'Nine Strings To Your Bow', Peter Falkner finds himself haunted by the unsolved murder of his uncle, Mark Aiken. Acquitted after a long and tumultuous legal battle, Falkner yearns for closure. Enter Con Madden, a determined investigator tasked with unraveling a tangled web of clues, from mysterious limping figures to a vanished fishing rod. As Madden delves deeper, the truth slowly emerges, exposing a sinister underworld and a dark secret that threatens to shatter Falkner's world forever.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2021

About the author

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.

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