Dirtmouth

the long version

"A mystery in two voices, Dirtmouth recounts the grisly murder of a young woman on Blackman's Heath, an ancient execution site in the Irish bogs. A pair of archaeologists, the obese and decadent Kraft Dundeed and his furious protege Roscoe Taste, each contest the other's self-justifying account of the crime while professing passionate love for the victim. Two silences frame their quarrel: Cinnabar McDermond, the brutalized subject of her lovers' confessions, and a nameless Investigator, whose invisible presence embodies the reader's. Against this backdrop of subterranean savagery, the competing monologues struggle to unearth a violence neither can fully remember or forget." "Dirtmouth is the third in a triad of novels by Alan Singer which investigates the entanglements of memory, self, and duplicitous will. Drawing readers into an interrogation room as vast and constricted as the mind, Dirtmouth explores the archeology of passion, exhuming crimes that mirror our own."--BOOK JACKET.