Murray Whelan is pushing fifty. He's also pushing something malodorous uphill as a member of the Labour Party's very small very ineffectual parliamentary minority. It's a thankless task, and Murray is not a satisfied man.
But Charlie Talbot's a dead one, and there's nothing like that passing of an old friend to put things in perspective. When it coincides, however, with the discovery of human remains that may unlock a mystery from Murray's past, the question has to be asked. How much perspective can one man really handle?
Eagerly anticipated by his legion of fans, Shane Maloney's sixth Murray Whelan has been well worth the wait.