Waste of Shame

On the first day of the new Millennium the body of a 97-year-old woman is found strangled and mutilated in her ramshackle house in a remote seaside village in west Cork. The local police are inclined to pin it on a pair of travellers who have set up camp in the neighbourhood, after drug money.McCadden, still new in his job on the all-Ireland murder squad, is not so sure. The viciousness of the att...