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Book review: Brilliant account of Macarthur case even has an interview with the Gubu man
A vividly written exploration of the bizarre murders that caused a major political crisis in 1980s Ireland is Gubu in its own right; gripping, unpretentious, brilliant and unputdownable
In 2019, the Irish crime novelists Liz Nugent and Jane Casey attended a literary festival and were approached by an elderly man who asked, “Have you ever met a murderer?” When they replied in the negative, he told them, “You have met one now.”
By then Nugent had already recognised Malcolm Macarthur, the eccentric bohemian who 37 years previously had killed two people and then finally been arrested in the Attorney General’s apartment.
One person ...
