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Declan Hughes

Autor/a de The Wrong Kind of Blood

11+ obres 796 Membres 42 Ressenyes 3 preferits

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Declan Hughes is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in 1963 and grew up in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin. He was educated at Marian College, Ballsbridge and Trinity College, Dublin. He received the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel in 2007 for his debut crime novel, The mostra'n més Wrong Type of Blood, which introduced Irish-American detective, Ed Loy. Loy was named in homage to the character Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, as a loy is a traditional Irish spade. Other titles in the Ed Loy Series include; The Color of Blood, The Price of Blood, All the Dead Voices and City of Lost Girls. Declan's most recent novel is entitled All the Things You Are. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Declan Hughes

Obres associades

Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (2011) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Eighties (2013) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Hughes, Declan
Data de naixement
1963
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
Ireland
Lloc de naixement
Dublin, Ireland
Llocs de residència
Dublin, Ireland
Agent
Nick Marston (Curtis Brown), TV and theatre

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I decided to give this series another go because I was in Dublin. I still can't find my way to enjoying it. Won't rate it but it isn't for me.
 
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cdaley | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Nov 2, 2023 |
This is the fifth and final book In in the series, sadly I grabbed it by mistake and therefore will be reading the series out of order since The only other book in the series I have read is the first one.
This book is even better than the first book, which is saying something.
Nearly as much a literary book, as a mystery, plenty questions around morality, religion and its affects on life in Ireland.
This truly is a fantastic book.
 
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zmagic69 | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Mar 31, 2023 |
I don’t know how I found this book, but I am sure happy I did.
Excellent murder mystery.
And I am even happier to know there are 4 more in the series.
 
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zmagic69 | Hi ha 15 ressenyes més | Mar 31, 2023 |
Imagine coming home to your house expecting to be greeted by your husband and your children. Instead, the house is empty, no family no furniture’s and the dog lies dead in the garden. That is what Claire Taylor finds when she comes home after a week in Chicago. Suddenly her life has turned upside done, but that is just the start.

Something happened thirty-five years ago, that changed four boys and a little girls’ life, something bad. And the past that the boys tried to forget will not be forgotten so much longer.

This book by Declan Hughes made me think about books by Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay in the way everything wasn’t the way one expected and because of all the twist and turns in the story. It was an interesting story with an explosive ending, but in the end, the twist and turning weren't all that surprising. Nothing in the book made me go all “what the hell did that come from” when something was reviled it was more of a feeling of “of course”. I would have liked a story more complex, so complex that you can’t stop reading to find out what happens next. Not that the book is boring, it was a good read. I just never really got that “I-can’t-put-the-book-away-feeling”…

There was one other thing that bothered me with the books; the unknown narrator. Suddenly in the book the narrator turn from one of the character to an unknown person and it really irked me. It really destroyed the flow of the story.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!
… (més)
 
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MaraBlaise | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jul 23, 2022 |

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Obres
11
També de
2
Membres
796
Popularitat
#32,019
Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
42
ISBN
75
Llengües
3
Preferit
3

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