Summary
Ed Loy has made some changes. He has moved into an apartment in Dublin’s city centre, leaving behind his family home: he wants to break free of the ghosts of his own past, to live in the present. But if that’s what he wants for his own life, it’s not always what his clients will permit: the baggage they bring with him propel him relentlessly into past.
The police are working along similar lines with their new Cold Case unit. Looking back over a fifteen-year-old murder, they are satisf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848540309 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848540302 |
| Author: | Declan Hughes |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 566g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 29mm |
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PRAISE FOR DECLAN HUGHES: - *
I d be prepared to swear that there has never been a character in Irish crime fiction with a name so taut, muscular and slyly tongue in cheek as Ed Loy …’ - Irish Times To call Declan Hughes “a natural” is to engage in understatement. Here is a crime novel that s both deftly plotted and truly character-driven. Like Chandler s Los Angeles, Hughes s Dublin is brilliantly atmospheric. The dialogue crackles and the characters have a truly lived-in authenticity. A great read - Douglas KennedyDeclan Hughes breathes new life into the private detective story - Michael ConnellyFinally Ireland gets a hardboiled detective worthy of the name…- it’s not hard to see why [Declan Hughes’] publisher placed so much faith in such a relative newcomer - Ireland on Sunday‘Top class … Fast moving, and paced with acutely observed dialogue, Hughes draws an accurate and decidedly dark picture of the changes wrought by Celtic Tiger Ireland on Seaview and its inhabitants. Highly recommended’ - Irish Independent ReviewHughes is in his element describing the sites and sounds of the places Loy visits - Sunday Tribune Declan Hughes manages the extremely difficult trick of not only locating a credible thriller in Ireland but also casting an eye on the way this society has changed utterly in the past two decades … Hughes laces his plot with razor-sharp and frequently hilarious comments on Irish society - Herald AM and Evening HeraldAbout The Author
Declan Hughes
Declan Hughes has spent twenty years working in the theatre in Ireland, as director, playwright and running Ireland’s leading independent theatre company.
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