{"product_id":"hard-cases","title":"Hard Cases","description":"\u003cp\u003eHard Cases is a collection of startling stories about the reality of crime and court cases in Ireland. In these stories, there are no crime bosses with quaint nicknames; the police don’t collect convenient clues that tell them who dunnit.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, we get cases both famous and obscure in which the outcome is sometimes just, sometimes unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt begins with ‘Dessie O’Hare’s Last Stand’, which records in breathtaking detail the inside story of a notorious kidnapping. It ends with ‘The Small Legend of Karl Crawley’, the story of a sometimes gentle, sometimes wild young Dublin man who found a shocking way of fighting back against authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s the story of how Peter Mathews went into a police station to answer questions about a petty crime and ended up dead, with gardai covering up the reason why. How did Fr Molloy come to die in the bedroom of his married friends? What happened when a man came home to find his daughter’s boyfriend wielding a hatchet?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen there are the stories of murder, incest, libel and the legal warfare between rival Elvis fans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrugs, violence, robbery, murder and incest – Gene Kerrigan tells the big stories of twenty years of crime in Ireland. Written in his addictive style, once you’ve started reading, you won’t be able to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55123800031619,"sku":"9780717138623","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0910\/3664\/7811\/files\/245d3f78a676095c49217cf4b6b293e4.jpg?v=1741009469","url":"https:\/\/shop.gill.ie\/products\/hard-cases","provider":"Gill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}