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'The night of my mother's funeral, Linda Dawson cried on my shoulder, put her tongue in my mouth and asked me to find her husband. Now she was lying dead on her living room floor, and the howl of a police siren echoed through the surrounding hills...'
Ed Loy hasn't been back to Dublin for twenty years. But his mother is dead, and he has returned home to bury her. He soon realizes that the world waiting for him is very different from the one he left behind all those years ago.
'Tommy said you found people who were missing', Linda Dawson tells him the evening of his mother's funeral. Linda's husband has disappeared. She doesn't want the police involved. So reluctantly, Loy agrees to investigate.
And suddenly in this place where he grew up - among the Georgian houses, Victorian castles, and modern villas of Castlehill - Loy finds himself thrown into a world of organized crime, long-hidden secrets, corruption and violence. And murder.
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Review:
Hughes makes a gritty start to his crime thriller series set in the Irish capital and featuring private investigator Edward Loy.' (Publishing News)
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 Kennedy)
'Distinctive, witty, violent and moving, The Wrong Kind of Blood is reminiscent of the best of classic American crime fiction, yet ultimately Hughes's voice is utterly his own. With The Wrong Kind of Blood, Irish crime fiction has come of age' (John Connolly)
Amazon's Irish Book of the Month 'Dark and gripping' (Amazon)
'Declan Hughes breathes new life into the private detective story with The Wrong Kind of Blood. This thrilling ride of deception brilliantly teaches us that the past is never far behind us, that it can reach out and grab us at any time' (Michael Connelly)
'A very strong debut indeed, and Rankin fans should find this a must-read' (Sue Baker, Publishing News)
'All in all, The Wrong Kind of Blood is the sort of crime novel you really want to read . . . The plot is well-constructed, the characters well-rounded. The dialogue is to die for' (Irish Times)
'Fabulous . . . a refreshing new voice in the crime genre' (Love Reading)
A masterful debut (Daily Ireland)
'A fast-paced, tightly-written thriller, The Wrong Kind of Blood takes an uncomfortably penetrating look at modern Ireland . . . give it a whirl, it's worth it' - Ailin Quinlan (Irish Examiner Weekend)
'Finally 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' - Robert Mayes (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 Review)
'Hughes is in his element describing the sites and sounds of the places Loy visits' - Ken Griffin (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 Herald)
'After this assured debut there is little doubt that [Ed Loy] will be back in print and, quite possibly, on the small screen' (Sunday Business Post (Ireland))
'A classic PI novel ... Hughes's vivid characters, realistic dialogue and narrative drive make this a very successful début' (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph/Seven)
'Irish crime fiction is in a confident and exciting mood just now, and this book suggests that the Ed Loy series will deserve to be part of that boom' (Mat Coward, Morning Star)
'Declan Hughes has written a thriller that is a hell of a good read... there's an energy to his writing that suggests he's in it for the long haul' (Lee Dunne, Irish Sunday Independent)
'A tautly-penned crime thriller from a new writing talent.' (Nottingham Evening Post, John Brunton)
'Declan Hughes must be congratulated on producing a book that brings the reader the feeling of being in Ireland like the best of American traditional private-eye fiction.' (Aberdeen Press & Journal: Susan Bell)
'Vivid characters, realistic dialogue and narrative . . . An exciting and thought-provoking thriller' (Sunday Telegraph)
'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 . . .' (Arminta Wallace, Irish Times)
'Authors to watch in 2006' (Irish Times)
'As for Ed Loy, after this assured debut there is little doubt he will be back in print and, quite possibly, on the small screen' (Sunday Tribune Review)
'A strong, witty debut' (West Australian)
'Highly promising' (Irish Times)
'A great plot and marvellous descriptions and dialogue' (Pauline McLynn of Father Ted fame, now a novelist)
'(Declan Hughes's) Ed Loy, a private eye who learnt his trade in LA, brings West Coast thrills to the Irish scene' (Jonathan Gibbs, Independent)
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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 Kennedy)
'Distinctive, witty, violent and moving, The Wrong Kind of Blood is reminiscent of the best of classic American crime fiction, yet ultimately Hughes's voice is utterly his own. With The Wrong Kind of Blood, Irish crime fiction has come of age' (John Connolly)
Amazon's Irish Book of the Month 'Dark and gripping' (Amazon)
'Declan Hughes breathes new life into the private detective story with The Wrong Kind of Blood. This thrilling ride of deception brilliantly teaches us that the past is never far behind us, that it can reach out and grab us at any time' (Michael Connelly)
'A very strong debut indeed, and Rankin fans should find this a must-read' (Sue Baker, Publishing News)
'All in all, The Wrong Kind of Blood is the sort of crime novel you really want to read . . . The plot is well-constructed, the characters well-rounded. The dialogue is to die for' (Irish Times)
'Fabulous . . . a refreshing new voice in the crime genre' (Love Reading)
A masterful debut (Daily Ireland)
'A fast-paced, tightly-written thriller, The Wrong Kind of Blood takes an uncomfortably penetrating look at modern Ireland . . . give it a whirl, it's worth it' - Ailin Quinlan (Irish Examiner Weekend)
'Finally 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' - Robert Mayes (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 Review)
'Hughes is in his element describing the sites and sounds of the places Loy visits' - Ken Griffin (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 Herald)
'After this assured debut there is little doubt that [Ed Loy] will be back in print and, quite possibly, on the small screen' (Sunday Business Post (Ireland))
'A classic PI novel ... Hughes's vivid characters, realistic dialogue and narrative drive make this a very successful début' (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph/Seven)
'Irish crime fiction is in a confident and exciting mood just now, and this book suggests that the Ed Loy series will deserve to be part of that boom' (Mat Coward, Morning Star)
'Declan Hughes has written a thriller that is a hell of a good read... there's an energy to his writing that suggests he's in it for the long haul' (Lee Dunne, Irish Sunday Independent)
'A tautly-penned crime thriller from a new writing talent.' (Nottingham Evening Post, John Brunton)
'Declan Hughes must be congratulated on producing a book that brings the reader the feeling of being in Ireland like the best of American traditional private-eye fiction.' (Aberdeen Press & Journal: Susan Bell)
'Vivid characters, realistic dialogue and narrative . . . An exciting and thought-provoking thriller' (Sunday Telegraph)
'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 . . .' (Arminta Wallace, Irish Times)
'Authors to watch in 2006' (Irish Times)
'As for Ed Loy, after this assured debut there is little doubt he will be back in print and, quite possibly, on the small screen' (Sunday Tribune Review)
'A strong, witty debut' (West Australian)
'Highly promising' (Irish Times)
'A great plot and marvellous descriptions and dialogue' (Pauline McLynn of Father Ted fame, now a novelist)
'(Declan Hughes's) Ed Loy, a private eye who learnt his trade in LA, brings West Coast thrills to the Irish scene' (Jonathan Gibbs, Independent)
'Brilliantly atmospheric ... this book is a winner.' Douglas Kennedy
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0753176645
- ISBN 13 9780753176641
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages448
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