In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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because there's murky business to investigate today on Open Book.

A dead body has been found in the House of Commons.

We look into the crime fiction of 1930s MP Ellen Wilkinson.

And two of the most distinctive sleuths in literature, Holmes and Marlowe, are back.

How reverential should writers be with these iconic characters.

But first, a mystery with a hint of the godfather by the much-lawed and award-winning Australian writer Gail Jones. Describing herself as a

novelist of ideas, this is a book positively busting with them, with meditations on everything

from the time-collapsing nature of memory to the timelessness of art, the nature of grief, sibling

love and fatherhood. The novel begins and ends with the death of eponymous art historian Noah,

who in his last months may have become embroiled in an art theft.

As his adult children, Martin and Evie, try and unravel the mystery around their father's death,

they find themselves excavating childhood memories for further clues.

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