The Lonesome Heart is Angry

by Paul Charles

What seems like a routine job for matchmaker Michael Gilmour in a small 1960s Northern Irish town becomes something very much more when events take an unexpected turn. The brothers Kane have an idea for their matches that will set tongues wagging, light the fires of jealousy in more than one heart and open the door to tragedy.

The Lonesome Heart is Angry explores life in a small town and the darker side of the human condition. It doesn’t shy away from the gossip, the fear, the violence and desperation that can build up inside people and behind closed doors.

Set in Castlemartin, home of the Playboys who featured in Paul Charles’ The Last Dance, The Lonesome Heart is Angry is a gripping novel that will keep you reading until the last page.

390 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Paul Charles was born and raised in Northern Ireland. He now lives and works in Camden Town, where he divides his time between writing novels and short stories and working in the music industry.

Reviews

[Mary Crawford · Rating 3 out of 5]

This murder mystery is set in a small village outside Mahgerafelt in the 60s. It has romance, small mindedness, humour, farm life and love. I got the impression that the author had a number of sentences that he thought were really good and inserted them at various points in the story but they stood out as good one liners and seemed a bit contrived. The premise of the story was good and I liked the end result but was a bit long in between.