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In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, he's finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark O'Connell explains what it was like to receive "the dark gift" of Macarthur's story.
The first of our two-part series of recommendations for your summer reading
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Forty-one years have passed since Macarthur emerged from the fringes of a driftless Irish gentrified background to commit two brutal killings
The author’s account of the 1982 Dublin murders committed by the wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur deals dazzlingly in moral complexities
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