Book launch: Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
Schedule
Wed, 02 Apr, 2025 at 05:30 pm
Location
69 Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland | Cork, CK
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We’re very pleased to host the launch of Fair Play (Picador) by Louise Hegarty, an inventive and constantly surprising crime novel by a hugely exciting debut author.Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. To celebrate his birthday, Abigail hires a grand old house and gathers their friends together for a murder mystery party. As the night goes on, they drink too much and play games. Relationships are forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses someone they shouldn't, someone else's heart is broken.
In the morning, everyone wakes up - except Benjamin.
Suddenly everything is not quite what it seems. An eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer. The house now has a butler, a gardener and a housekeeper. This is a locked-room mystery, and everyone is a suspect.
As Abigail attempts to fathom her brother's unexpected death in a world that has been turned upside down, she begins to wonder whether perhaps the true mystery might have been his life
Louise Hegarty's stories have appeared in Banshee, The Tangerine, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review and have been featured on BBC Radio 4. She was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize and her story 'Now, Voyager' was produced as part of A City and A Garden, a new state-of-the-art sonic experience commissioned by Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul and presented as part of Brightening Air | Coisceim Coiligh. Fair Play is her debut novel.
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