This novel is longlisted for the Booker prize, which is why I requested it from the library some time ago. I knew it was about a retired Irish police officer who receives a call from former colleagues regarding a previous case, which in turn dredges up a variety of emotional scars. That sounded open ended enough, perhaps like a Tana French novel, and I often enjoy thriller-adjacent novels set in Ireland – and from the cover and other vague descriptions, it sounded just dreamy enough. […]
“He was the orphan of his former happiness.”
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry