Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley, The : A Novel - Softcover

"Jeremy Massey puts a fresh and intriguing spin on the Irish crime novel with the tale of an ordinary man drawn into a deadly conflict with a Dublin mob boss. The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley is both a cleverly constructed thriller and an unforgettable story of friendship, love, and loyalty. It's sharply written, darkly comic, and full of heart." --Harry Dolan, author of New York Times bestseller Bad Things Happen (Berkley, 2010)

"It's a very funny novel which keeps you hoping that despite his many prophecies of the dire fate that awaits him, Paddy will somehow pull through. Obviously, I'm not going to tell you the ending but I will say that Massey neatly ties together all those bits and bobs of funeral lore, including the embalming." --A Life In Books

"[Massey's] dark and zany humor is anchored by some serious reflection." - Library Journal

&quotIntelligent and suspenseful debut novel...A hilarious funeral home scam and a quirky dead body mix-up add to this exciting, morbid tale." --Publisher's Weekly

"There are truths about life and death in this novel that will leave the reader wrestling with questions of mortality long after the end." --The Irish Times

"As the debut novel from a screenplay writer, it has the dynamism of a motion picture, and the fact that Massey comes from a family of undertakers gives the scenes set in Paddy's workplace a ghoulish authenticity." --Scotland Herald

"It's almost impossible not to like Paddy - he's the quintessential everyman we've seen a thousand times before, trying to play the nice guy and please everyone whilst simultaneously digging himself into a deeper and deeper well of trouble, and I was on tenterhooks waiting for the inevitable fallout when the mobsters discovered the truth." --The Bookbag

"Insanely readable, indeed the ultimate page-turner where you can't wait to find out how the likeable Paddy could possibly evade being rumbled and murdered by the vengeful Vincent and his psychopathic underlings." --Irish Independent

Jeremy Massey is a second-generation undertaker who worked with his father for many years at the family firm in Dublin. A screenwriter by training, Massey has lived in New York and Los Angeles. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Australia, where he teaches writing.