Paul Williams 
Almost the Perfect Murder 
The Killing of Elaine O Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account

From Ireland’s leading crime journalist, Paul Williams, comes the definitive account of the case that gripped the nation.’A book that had to be written’ Ray D’Arcy, RT Radio 1 For over a year, everyone assumed missing Dublin woman Elaine O’Hara had ended her own life. But after her remains were found, the police discovered that Elaine was in thrall to a man who had spent years grooming her to let him kill her. That man was Graham Dwyer, a married father of three and partner in a Dublin architecture practice. Almost the Perfect Murder details the exhaustive investigation — one of the most complex and chilling in Irish criminal justice history — that allowed garda to build a case against Dwyer. And it outlines the twists and turns that happened during the dramatic trial that followed. ‘An example of doggedness and tenacious police work, which saw that justice was done, and seen to be done’ Irish Independent’Fascinating’ Pat Kenny, Newstalk ‘It is very rare for murder to involve the degree of calculation revealed in this case’ Irish Times