Dead Dogs

Se n Galvin isn't like the other children. While they play and laugh and keep on growing up, Se n doesn't. Instead he does stuff to things. Things like cats and dogs. Bad stuff. Se n has only one friend, the nameless narrator who tells their story. Their young lives revolve around sport and school. That is until Se n finally does something appalling and the boys have no choice but to tell someone. Someone older. Someone they should be able to trust. What they uncover is a secret far more awful than anything Se n is capable of: they witness a murder. Or do they? Because of their previous behavior, no- one believes them. They begin to unravel a rather sinister series of links between people whom they thought they could trust and the person who they saw committing the crime. Their little rural town becomes a place of cold skepticism and barely-hidden conspiracy. But is there really a conspiracy? Accused of being 'freaks', they become more and more isolated, and even Se n starts doubting. But the novel's increasingly unhinged narrator embarks on a mission to prove that they saw what they saw and his obsession will see their friendship tested to its limits and their lives changed forever.