A Thread of Violence

by Mark O'Connell

Doubleday/PRH

    This is a fascinating and disturbing look at an Irish murderer, Malcolm Macarthur who brutally killed two innocent people in 1982. Mark O'Connell tries to make sense of the horrific violence and the man who seems to not completely understand what he's done. Macarthur spent thirty years in Irish prisons and willingly talks with O'Connell after his release, but there is real frustration for O'Connell as he (and we) do not come to really understand why this happened.

    It's very well written and a book you won't easily put down.

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