# The Murderer

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- Authors: [Roy Heath](https://www.bookquiver.com/roy-heath)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-05-05

## Description

'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.' Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's 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 unravel. With 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.

## Editions

### The Murderer

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4155-272-8
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2022-05-05
- Language: en_GB

### The Murderer

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-923-4
- Published: 2022-05-05
- Language: en_GB