Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told is an enthralling, masterful story about what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled accidental. But Patrick knowsāand believes the whole town knowsāthey were murders. He knows because he and his best friend, Mikey Lamb, were witnesses.And so Patrick goes to see eighty-year-old Sam Howard, the lawyer who conducted the inquest into the death of missionary priest Jarlath Coughlin. As he questions Sam and Sam's vibrant, loving, gossipy wife, Elsie, he seeks acknowledgment of a cover-up and an explanation of why the Protestant establishment would help conceal a crime among Catholics. During their give-and-takeāabout this and the nearly simultaneous shotgun death of Lawrence Gorman (aka Doul Yank)āwhat emerges from their collective memories are a pungent, wry portrait of village life in Ireland and a tangle of human relationships, some twisted and some that show our better side.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionānovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Authorās Note
- Cast of Characters
- 1 Waiting to Be Let In
- 2 The Birthday Present
- 3 The Gift from Leeds
- 4 The Peeper
- 5 In the Sunroom
- 6 On the Kitchen Floor
- 7 Wrestling on the Edge of a Cliff
- 8 In the Sunroom
- 9 The Sister
- 10 In the Sunroom
- 11 The Civil Servant
- 12 The Bike
- 13 The Trap
- 14 In the Sunroom
- 15 Emigration
- 16 In the Sunroom
- 17 The 3,367th Journey Home
- 18 The Terrible Thought
- 19 In the Sunroom
- 20 In the Burnished Pewter Bowl
- 21 The July Fair Day in Gohen
- 22 Visiting the Sick
- 23 In the Sunroom
- 24 First Witness: Mister Kevin Lalor
- 25 In the Sunroom
- 26 Witness: Sergeant Morrissey
- 27 In the Sunroom
- 28 Witness: Doctor Roberts
- 29 In the Sunroom
- 30 Witness: Mister Coughlin
- 31 In the Sunroom
- 32 Witness: Missus Madden
- 33 In the Sunroom
- 34 Witness: Mister Murphy
- 35 In the Sunroom
- 36 Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told
- 37 In the Sunroom
- 38 The Reluctant Good Neighbor
- 39 In the Sunroom
- 40 What Peggy Mulhall Said She Did
- 41 In the Sunroom
- 42 The Day Before the Inquest
- 43 In the Sunroom
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
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