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Twenty years ago a boy died, and the whole city agreed on what happened.
Tonight, somebody was finally going to say otherwise.
He didn’t survive the interval.
Friday nights at The Velvet Yard belong to Vera Notions: the sharpest host in Belfast, known offstage as oral historian Rory Kavanagh. Vera can read a room down to the last nervous laugh. Tonight the room needs reading.
Celebrity podcaster Theo Byrne has booked the Yard to record a live episode about Naoise Devlin — seventeen years old, dead at a Belfast nightlife event in the summer of 2006, investigated for eleven days and then left alone for twenty years. Before the break, Theo promises two hundred people that he will come back on and say exactly what happened to that boy.
He never comes back on. They find him in a storage room off the back corridor, and the word suicide reaches the room well ahead of the facts.
The police are kind, and careful, and in no hurry. Rory is none of the three. He was standing three feet away when the boy’s name landed, and he watched four people in that audience stop breathing. Now the note reads wrong, the recorder is missing, and two days after Theo Byrne died somebody quietly went into his account and deleted a file.
Rory has spent fifteen years collecting other people’s stories, and he already owes one back. Following this one takes him from the Yard’s back corridor to a retired doorman’s front room, a Tuesday-night drop-in behind a painted-over window, and a glass tower on the waterfront where a man has spent twenty years paying for a version of events and getting exactly what he paid for.
Inside this book
- A detective whose weapon is attention, not forensics — crowd work is interrogation with better lighting
- A double-timeline mystery: one fresh body, one twenty-year-old lie, every clue in plain sight
- A Belfast of wet cobbles, glass towers and one cabaret bar with a dented black door
- A cast who look after their own, because for a long time nobody else was going to
- Book 1 of the Vera Notions Mysteries. Complete in itself, with the next case already in his inbox
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