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Informationen zum Autor Eoin McNamee's novels include Resurrection Man , later made into a film, The Blue Tango , which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Orchid Blue , described by John Burnside in the Guardian as 'not only a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art,' and Blue is the Night which was awarded the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives in Sligo. Klappentext On the morning of the 13th November 1952, the body of 19-year-old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had been the victim of an accidental shooting. In fact, a post-mortem revealed that she had been stabbed repeatedly. The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee is at once a gripping thriller and a danse macabre through a shadowy world of corruption and sexual intrigue - all based on the real case of Patricia Curran and one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent history. Zusammenfassung On the morning of the 13th November 1952, the body of 19-year-old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had been the victim of an accidental shooting. In fact, a post-mortem revealed that she had been stabbed repeatedly.
