The Murderer by Roy Heath Paperback Book 9780241552728

For me life hasnt got dreams success and all that damn nonsense Life is full of shadows some of them soft and others conceal a hammerGalton Flood is a lonely man restless and ill at ease with his family He leaves his home in Guyanas capital Georgetown for a remote township and the first of a string of precarious jobs Meeting Gemma his landlords daughter appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection maybe even happiness But there is a darkness inside Galton and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally violently unravelWith this haunting portrait of a mind undone celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth its rivers townships and tenement yards and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community