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Tense and expertly plotted, The Midnight Choir is a stunning portrayal of life on the edge of society.
Dublin. Joshua Boyce watches a jewellers from a rented flat across the road, noting the comings and goings as he plans a job; Dixie Peyton, desperate for cash, attempts to mug an American tourist, threatening him with a syringe purporting to contain HIV-infected blood; Detective Inspector Synott calls on an alleged rape suspect, already convinced of the boy's guilt; gangland leader Lar MacKendrick is working out, getting back in shape after brother Jo-Jo was viciously murdered. Meanwhile in Galway, Garda Joe Mills apprehends a jumper from a pub roof and discovers that the man is covered in dried blood.
In Little Criminals, Kerrigan gave a small insight into a previously unseen underworld. In The Midnight Choir that world explodes. We enter a gritty landscape of characters with questionable and contrary ideals; all struggling to survive in a time and place that's constantly knocking them back. Everyone has an axe to grind; criminals and police alike live by their own code, with both sides resorting to desperate measures as a means to an end. Law enforcement is often murky, and getting away with it is everything, no matter which side you're on.
The Midnight Choir is a magnificent accomplishment, a powerful and intricate novel, driven to the last page at a tremendous pace by an original voice.
Dublin. Joshua Boyce watches a jewellers from a rented flat across the road, noting the comings and goings as he plans a job; Dixie Peyton, desperate for cash, attempts to mug an American tourist, threatening him with a syringe purporting to contain HIV-infected blood; Detective Inspector Synott calls on an alleged rape suspect, already convinced of the boy's guilt; gangland leader Lar MacKendrick is working out, getting back in shape after brother Jo-Jo was viciously murdered. Meanwhile in Galway, Garda Joe Mills apprehends a jumper from a pub roof and discovers that the man is covered in dried blood.
In Little Criminals, Kerrigan gave a small insight into a previously unseen underworld. In The Midnight Choir that world explodes. We enter a gritty landscape of characters with questionable and contrary ideals; all struggling to survive in a time and place that's constantly knocking them back. Everyone has an axe to grind; criminals and police alike live by their own code, with both sides resorting to desperate measures as a means to an end. Law enforcement is often murky, and getting away with it is everything, no matter which side you're on.
The Midnight Choir is a magnificent accomplishment, a powerful and intricate novel, driven to the last page at a tremendous pace by an original voice.
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Review:
"For Little Criminals: 'A savage X-ray picture of modern Ireland ... Great emotional impact ... Beautifully etched characters ... A Most promising debut" (Guardian)
"A terrifc novel, tense and exciting ... tremendous" (Independent on Sunday)
"For a debut novel, this is an assured confident piece of writing ... offering full rounded characters that are utterly credible. A supreme crime fiction to be enjoyed" (Irish Times)
"It's all quite unputdownable and cinematic" (Irish Independent)
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"A terrifc novel, tense and exciting ... tremendous" (Independent on Sunday)
"For a debut novel, this is an assured confident piece of writing ... offering full rounded characters that are utterly credible. A supreme crime fiction to be enjoyed" (Irish Times)
"It's all quite unputdownable and cinematic" (Irish Independent)
A magnificant follow up to Little Criminals. Frightening, violent, unputdownable.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0436205874
- ISBN 13 9780436205873
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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