Artichokes

By Cathal O'Neill

Spring came to the Roscommon garden incrementally, the way things arrive when they have been preparing underground for a long time and are now, with sufficient warmth and the right quality of light, producing what the preparation was for, after all the work and waiting. Well, for the most part. It is hard to be retired.

Oscar Cullan reads rooms the way he once read battlefields. A retired soldier turned quiet philosopher, he arrives at the funeral of an old friend on the Galway coast and finds something wrong with the room, a detail he can't yet name. What follows is an unraveling of debt, betrayal, and devotion inside a marriage and a household, told through a detective who enters every room and leaves it the same, gathering truth through patience rather than performance.

Artichokes is a cozy mystery, set in Ireland, about what people carry in silence, what it costs to set it down, and what survives underneath the armour, for those who have the patience to find it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HC7YDZN9
• ISBN13: 9798189928406
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"