A lock-in at the Broken Compass

A couple of weeks ago, Anna Zuccaro showed me one of the opening chapters to a novel she was writing about Dublin's nocturnal underbelly. It was so good I asked if I could publish it here.

The Broken Compass is a crime novel by the way of Bukowski and other literary bar flies, it’s clear that the author can only have researched her story by living it. Anna Zuccaro is so bright and funn…