A collection of early novellas & stories by Shamus Award-winning Irish crime novelist Ken Bruen. Included in the anthology are "Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities," "Shades of Grace," Martyrs," "Sherry and Other Stories," "All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose," and "The Time of Serena-May/Upon the Third Cross." Serena-May is a semi-autobiograph