Culture Night: R.P. O’Donnell

Join us on Culture Night for a free event with West Cork author R.P. O’Donnell to hear all about his debut novel All The Old Clocks. He will be in conversation with Gráinne Murphy. This is part of our free Culture Night Trail.

All The Old Clocks is a gripping West Cork mystery set in 1988 where time, memory and family secrets collide as Storm Cordelia rages through the county.

Still reeling from a devastating love affair and the collapse of a promising career in the Gardaí, Emma Daly is stuck. She’s moved back in with her dad and taken a job as a librarian in Kilcraven, the small West Cork village she thought she left behind. But when Emma witnesses a murder and the local guards arrest the wrong man for the crime, she’s forced to act. To prove a man innocent, she must sift through the village’s past, her own training and her beloved collection of detective stories before either the guards or the murderer can stop her.

She’s joined by a stubborn widow, an elderly hypochondriac and a charming ex-boyfriend — but quickly finds herself at the centre of a mystery that threatens to tear the whole village apart.