Book description
'I was upstairs with a girl I shouldn't have been upstairs with when my
wife whispered in my ear, 'You have twenty-four hours to move out'. The
book that started it all, Bateman's first novel published in 1995. It
introduced the world to the hapless, endlessly wily and witty Belfast
journalist Dan Starkey. Dan shares with his wife an appetite for
drinking and dancing. But when he meets Margaret, things get seriously
out of hand. Terrifyingly, unbelievably, she is murdered. Before long
Dan is a target himself, racing against time to crack the mystery.
Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time
writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and
all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays
for the feature films DIVORCING JACK and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the
popular TV series MURPHY'S LAW starring James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in
Ireland with his family.
