The Book of Evidence

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the Booker Prize winner of The Sea comes “an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell" ( The New York Times Book Review) about the dark confession of an improbable murderer.  “Ireland’s finest contemporary novelist.” — The Economist Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are he