This well told tale casting light on the dark side of Dublin both startles and intrigues.All the Dead Voices rings with tough authenticity; it is Irish crime fiction at its best.After some 20 yearsin the theater as both director and playwright Hughes turned to fiction and created Dublin based thrillers, which brought him not only a host of readers but a Shamus Award as well.
Private investigator Ed Loy is one of his most absorbing creations.Loy is, as he sees himself in All The Dead Voices, a man with "dead eyes telling me that my race was run, that there was nothing new under the sun except the next job of work, the next faithless woman, the next empty glass."
Well, his next job of work is rife with complexities and challenges.He's approached by a woman, Anne Fogarty, to find her father's real killer - a murder that was committed 15 years ago.She believes the police found the wrong man guilty.Steve Owen who was having an affair with Anne's mother was sent to prison and then released following an appeal.Anne has her own trio of suspects.
At the same time Loy is investigating the death of a soccer star, Paul Delaney, who may or may not have been selling heroin.As it turns out Delaney may also have been connected to one of the men Anne suspects of killing her father.It's quite one thing to solve a recent killing but another when one must dig into the past for answers.
Once again Declan Hughes has penned a compelling, plot and character driven narrative that's hard to put down.
- Gail Cooke
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