Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.
In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.