The Murder of Mr Moonlight by Catherine Fegan

When ordinary people do the unthinkable

Patrick Quirke: his trial and ultimate conviction for murder revealed a story of love, power, sex, deceit and murder played out in a sleepy rural idyllCourtpix

Crime: The Murder of Mr Moonlight, By Catherine Fegan, Penguin, €17.95

‘It was a story about ordinary people, in ordinary Ireland, and what happens when they do the unthinkable . . . As such, it was utterly compelling.”

Catherine Fegan’s account of the murder of Bobby Ryan has been published six months after Patrick Quirke of Breansha Woods, Tipperary, was found guilty of the crime. Over 292 well-researched and highly readable pages, Fegan ...