The Saint Patrick's Day Hero — Doug Mayfield; Sally Mayfield

“The Saint Patrick's Day Hero is the remarkable portrait of a man tormented by his secrets, a story so engrossing and well written that I never wanted it to end." 

-- Beryl Bissell, best-selling author of The Scent of God and A View of the Lake 


“A heartbreaking and powerfully relevant story." 

-- Pacific Book Review 


“The Saint Patrick's Day Hero will leave you thinking long after the story concludes. It is highly recommended for readers who enjoy novels having genuine intellectual heft." 

-- Midwest Book Review 


On March 17, 2010 -- Saint Patrick's Day -- fifty-seven people at Lothrup College in north-central Minnesota are killed in a campus shooting, many of them because they did not receive the college's active-shooter alert in time. When Professor William Kessler, the shooting's reluctant hero, discovers that Lothrup botched the alert and is now engaged in a cover-up, his first impulse is to come forward. But if he does, there will be grievous consequences, and his terrible secret -- the truth about what really happened that day -- will be revealed. 


Both funny and terrifying, The Saint Patrick's Day Hero is a captivating mash-up of genres: a beautiful love story, a gripping mystery and a novel of ideas all rolled into one. 


Doug Mayfield lives in northern Minnesota. The Saint Patrick's Day Hero is his second novel. His award-winning first novel, Angle of Declination, was published in 2012.