Hand in the Fire
HAND IN THE FIRE (4th Estate -April 2010)

 

hand in the fire

You have a funny way of doing things here.

 

The voice is that of Vid Cosic, a Serbian immigrant who strikes up an immediate friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon. Their friendship is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for dead in the street one night. The legal consequences force them into an ever closer partnership, drawing Vid right into the Concannon family, working for them as a carpenter on a major renovation project and becoming more and more involved in the troubled family story.

 

While he claims to have lost his own memory in a serious accident back home in Serbia, he cannot help investigate the background history of the Concannon family and the emerging details of a young woman from Connemara who was denounced by the church and whose pregnant body was washed up on the Aran Islands many years ago. Was it murder or suicide?  And what dark impact does this event in the past still have on the Concannon family now?