41 books · Colin Bateman
Miller's ever-so-smart aleck mouth has earned him a disciplinary transfer from his downtown Belfast beat to Crossmaheart, a beleaguered and depressed outpost where the preferred response to murder is a hilarious one-liner. Miller is replacing a reporter who has disappeared - to no one's great surprise in this postterrorist ghetto full of leftover guns, plentiful whiskey, and a secret more sordid than the locals' resumes of political "activism".