There was just one problem. The following evening, the body of Joanne’s dead baby was found on the farm. It could not have been thrown into the sea off Slea Head and washed up across the bay on White Strand. It was there on the farm, exactly where Joanne said it was. But the Gardaí were undaunted. Their narrative inventiveness was more than equal to the task of elaborating the plot to take account of this unexpected twist.
