---

The third and final novel of his acclaimed Blue Trilogy - following 2001s Booker Longlisted The Blue Tango , and 2010s Orchid Blue.

---

1949. Lance Curran is set to prosecute a young man for a brutal murder, in the ´Robert the Painter´ case, one which threatens to tear society apart. In the searing July heat, corruption and justice vie as Harry Ferguson, Judge Curran´s fixer, contemplates the souls of men adrift, and his own fall from grace with the beautiful and wilful Patricia. Within three years, Curran will be a judge, his nineteen year old daughter dead, at the hands of a still unknown murderer, and his wife Doris condemned to an asylum for the rest of her days.

In Blue Is the Night , it is Doris who finally emerges from the fog of deceit and blame to cast new light into the murder of her daughter - as McNamee once again explores and dramatizes a notorious and nefarious case.

---

Blue is the Night completes McNamee´s magnificent "Blue Trilogy" - establishing it as one of the very finest series of crime novels ever written - and yet, at the same time, this final novel both illuminates and transcends the previous two to stand alone alongside books as great as The Glass Key and Shutter Island as that rarest of things: a genuine, original masterpiece . DAVID PEACE

---

Eoin McNamee, geboren 1961 im nordirischen Kilkeel/County Down. Er veröffentlichte Drehbücher, Gedichte und Romane. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Familie in Sligo, Republik Irland.

---