Killer Whale

A Coming of Age Novel of Love, Family & Finding Your Way Home“The truth doesn’t come easily after all this time. There’s a story I want to tell. The story of the night I killed my father. The story of the night Kathy died.”It’s Monday night in New York City, and Rob is drunk, fired again from the latest in a long line of menial jobs. Rob is far from Dublin, his home, and far from the murder that drove him to run away. Rob is young, smart, funny and a complete mess, edging closer to Irish alcoholic cliché. All Rob has are his friends, Fitz, the big fat loudmouth, and Tim, the former college football star.Despite her best efforts, Rob meets Rachel, a beautiful college student with a savage charm and a bruised past life of her own, who will change everything for him.A forced meeting with his brother reveals a reason to go back to a home and a life Rob has been trying to erase. Faced with the prospect of missing his best childhood friend’s wedding, Rob decides to return to Ireland and to face up to the demons that drove him away.Set between New York and Dublin over a week in 1998, Killer Whale is a story of redemption and love, friendship and family. Fast paced and funny, tender and exciting, Killer Whale asks whether or not we can ever truly know another person, and if so, how do we remember them? As the person they always were or the terrible act that they perpetrated?