The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley / Jeremy Massey 288 pp.

Paddy Buckley (no relation) is a trusted employee of Gallagher's (also no relation) funeral home in Dublin.  One rainy night he's horrified to hit and kill a pedestrian.  He's considerably more horrified once he realizes it's the brother of Dublin's most vicious crime boss.  This is an intensely-paced noir thriller with quite a bit of sweetness mixed in, and it kept me guessing to the end.

P.S.  Massey earns extra points for convincingly portraying a 60-ish woman as the object of a much younger man's lust.  His mother must be proud of him.