The Murderer

''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.