Free (nook/Kindle) Born & Bred by Peter Murphy [1970s Irish Literary Crime Drama]

[ATDrake]

Born and Bred by Irish author Peter Murphy is the 1st in his Life and Times Trilogy of 1970s-set literary crime drama novels following the life of an alienated young Irishman who finds out disturbing family secrets and rapidly gets in over his head with his involvement with organized crime, as alienated young men often do, free courtesy of publisher The Story Plant.

This is B&N's Free Fridays selection and you can see the featured author's own recommended read in their blogpost here, along with The Story Plant's accompanying $1.99-$2.99 sale markdowns on selected novels of theirs, including a pre-order for the next-in-series of this. IIRC, the sale prices have usually propagated to the other stores in the past, and TSP are couponable at Kobo.

Currently free, probably just through the weekend @ B&N (also in the UK) & Amazon UK (slated to drop in the main store sometime after midnight Pacific Time).

Description
Danny Boyle was a born angel.

At least that’s what his granny used to say, and she should know – she raised him after his parents proved incapable. When she becomes ill, Danny is reunited with his parents but they do not get to live happily ever after, as the ghosts of the past haunt their days. And when the old woman dies, all of her secrets come to light and shatter everything Danny believes in.

In the turmoil of 1970’s Ireland, an alienated Danny gets into drugs and is involved in a gangland killing. Duped by the killers into leaving his prints on the gun, Danny needs all the help his friends and family can muster. Calling in favors from bishops and priests, police and paramilitaries, God and the devil, the living and the dead, they do all that they can. But even that might not be enough.

BORN & BRED is the first novel in the Life & Times Trilogy, a cycle of three novels that will chart the course of one star-crossed life. It is a work of vibrant imagination from a poetic novelist of the first order.