The Little Hammer Author:John Kelly In his paint?spattered room, a young and successful Irish artist confronts his own murderous past: the memory that has haunted him for more than two decades?of that day on the beach when he battered to death a paleontologist with his own geological hammer. His life is further disrupted by the beautiful Billy Maguire, an Ingrid Bergman look?alike... more » who leads him to Prague and involves him?and his beloved and devoutly paranoid grandmother?in yet another grievous crime. A triumph of linguistic brio, dark imagination, and wild wit from one of Ireland?s most gifted new writers.« less