In the Forest

<p><i>The spruces are so close together that the barks are a sable-brown.</i><br>Michael O’Kane is known as the ‘Kinderschrek’, the ‘child scarer’. He haunts Cloosh Wood in western Ireland. As a boy he lost his mother and by the age of ten he was in prison. Now he seeks sacrificial victims to satisfy his delusional fantasies: a beautiful young mother, her infant son and a trusting priest, who are enticed into the forest.<br><br>Inspired by a real triple homicide, this novel is a ''tour de force of finely restrained fury'' (<i>Newsday</i>).</p>