Eating Jesus - Softcover

Marney, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905553188 ISBN 13: 9781905553181

Publisher: BookPublishingWorld, 2007

Synopsis

The coffin was disappearing behind the curtain. Sarah listened as the Minister praised her dead son. "Hard working student ... gifted at maths ... former officer in the Boy's Brigade..." She couldnae fault the man: her son had been all these things, but these werenae important to her. They'd made her proud at the time, but she'd have loved him anyway, even if he'd been a dunce or a rogue. Robbie, her wean, was murdered. Someone local the Police said. How could that be? Who could do this to her? Brigton was a wee place. She thought she knew everybody. She thought she did... A sexually obsessed small time solicitor, hatred from both sides of the sectarian divide. The dead orangemans two lovers - one's pregnant and the other's a man. EATING JESUS is the most entertaining crime novel you'll read this year.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Two families, one Catholic and the other Protestant, both
struggling to come to terms with the murder of one young man. So who killed
Robert Lawrence, and why? His mother wants answers, and her niece Carol, a
small time solicitor, is given the job of uncovering them. But the more
Carol finds out about her wee cousin Robbie's life, the deeper into trouble
she gets.

Eating Jesus has been described as `an everyday tale of Scottish life with
secret lovers, secret children, extortion, paramilitary kidnappings,
repressed lust and overpowering love'.

About this edition

• Publisher: BookPublishingWorld
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1905553188
• ISBN 13: 9781905553181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316