McLysaght and Breen nail darkly comic crime with 'Our Deadly Summer'

Two Irish authors known for warmth and wit have crossed into darker territory, asking an old question in a new register: what becomes of the secrets we bury in youth? Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen's Our Deadly Summer follows two friends whose bond was forged — and fractured — by a single act on a Long Island summer in 2001, and who must face each other again more than twenty years later. The novel suggests that some silences do not fade with time but calcify, and that the friendships we believe are unbreakable are often the ones most quietly undone by what we cannot say.