The Bones of It

A psychological crime thriller set in present day County Down. Twenty-two-year-old Scott McAuley, son of ex-paramilitary Duke McAuley, pens diary entries. When Scott is ousted from his politics degree course for joyriding, he returns home to live with Duke for the first time in his memory. When Scott was a baby, Duke was imprisoned for the murders of two young Catholic men, and Scott's grandmother, Isla, became his guardian. Scott finds it difficult living with Duke now, and even more so when he starts getting paranoid that Duke is secretly seeing his ex-girlfriend.

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PRAISE FOR THE BONES OF IT

'Compelling, compulsive, compassionate.' — Irish Examiner

'A brilliant crime debut, chilling, compulsive and beautifully written. Fans of The Butcher Boy and The Book of Evidence will find much to love in The Bones of It. A hugely impressive addition to the growing body of Irish crime fiction.' —New York Times bestselling author, Brian McGilloway

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kelly Creighton is an arts facilitator and the editor of The Incubator literary journal. Her debut short story collection Bank Holiday Hurricane was published by Doire Press, September 2017. Her poetry chapbook, Three Primes, was published by Lapwing, September 2013. Creighton co-founded the Square Circle Writers’ Group in Newtownards. She was named runner-up for the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award in 2014, and has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, the Fish Short Story Prize and the Cúirt New Writing Prize for fiction. She received an SIAP grant from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 2013. Her writing has featured in The Stinging Fly, Litro and Cyphers, among other places.