John Blaine is a private detective walking the streets of Dublin. He is tough, smart but unlucky in love. Hired to bring home a wandering daughter, he takes the girl's side against her rich father, and suffers for it.
In his first collection of short stories, Dermot Bolger peers under the veneer of our lives, exploring the secrets that bind families together, or tear them apart, creating worlds where people find that nothing is truly certain. There are always truths just beyond reach that would make sense of their lives, if they only know how to unlock them.