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Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing (EBook, 2019, Doubleday) 5 stars

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast …

It is a well-researched story of the Northern Ireland Troubles period, focusing mostly on the IRA side. Quite a lot of space is devoted towards reflecting on post-conflict reconciliation (or the impossibility of it) and what happens to fighters when peace comes. I waited a couple of years to read the book, not disappointed.