- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: John Murray (2 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184854068X
- ISBN-13: 978-1848540682
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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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 Kennedy )
'Declan Hughes breathes new life into the private detective story' (Michael Connelly )
'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' (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' (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 )'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'
(Irish Sunday Independent )Product Description
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 teeming 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 satisfied by their original findings – but not so Loy. He has been hired by the victim’s daughter to investigate the suspects ignored by the first investigation: a rich property developer, an ex-IRA man and Loy’s own nemesis, George Halligan.
But Loy has to watch his back: in the murky world into which he has fallen, he can’t tell which threats come from the IRA and which from the police protecting their old case. Can Loy persuade his longstanding friend DI Dave Donnelly to help solve the Fogarty case, or does he have to rely on the murderous George Halligan? Does it all go back to the IRA? Are the men who gave the commands now respectable citizens?
In his toughest case yet, Ed Loy delves into the dirty side of life in the New Ireland, where progress comes at a price and no one is free of their past. (20060501)
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 teeming 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 satisfied by their original findings – but not so Loy. He has been hired by the victim’s daughter to investigate the suspects ignored by the first investigation: a rich property developer, an ex-IRA man and Loy’s own nemesis, George Halligan.
But Loy has to watch his back: in the murky world into which he has fallen, he can’t tell which threats come from the IRA and which from the police protecting their old case. Can Loy persuade his longstanding friend DI Dave Donnelly to help solve the Fogarty case, or does he have to rely on the murderous George Halligan? Does it all go back to the IRA? Are the men who gave the commands now respectable citizens?
In his toughest case yet, Ed Loy delves into the dirty side of life in the New Ireland, where progress comes at a price and no one is free of their past. (20060501)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Good storyline, but did not have the same spellbinding enjoyment as 'Bad Blood', which was infinitely superior. The characters in this story are not as well formed and I found myself having to go back to the beginning on occasion to work out who everyone was and how they knew the main character.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was surprised by the negative reviews I found for a book which kept my attention throughout. I wonder if the writer offended some political sensitivities with his negative portrayal of the IRA. It seemed realistic to me but I'm not Irish. As I did enjoy it I am actually pleased to see that other reviewers say his other work, which I haven't read, is much better!
Format:Paperback
Make no mistake. This is an Irish crime novel written by a very Irish author. It's set in contemporary Dublin about the time the Celtic Tiger bears its fangs. It takes place over a couple weeks around Easter when all good Dubliners remember the heroes of the Easter uprising of 1916, the violent confrontation at the General Post Office when Irish Republicans fought to oust the British from the land. But the dead voices in Hughes' book are not heroes, they are victims.
Ed Loy, Hughes' private investigator, has appeared in three other novels. He returned to Ireland after twenty years in America to bury his mother and stayed around. In ALL THE DEAD VOICES he is hired to find the murderer of Anne Fogarty's father, a revenue inspector who was killed fifteen years ago, and to investigate the death of a rising soccer star. Several ex-IRA men and an Irish mobster are suspects in both murders.
But in the background of the story is another incident that occurred in 1980, other brutal unnecessary murders. After you finish the book, you'll remember the dead voices of these victims. They will haunt you!
Ed Loy, Hughes' private investigator, has appeared in three other novels. He returned to Ireland after twenty years in America to bury his mother and stayed around. In ALL THE DEAD VOICES he is hired to find the murderer of Anne Fogarty's father, a revenue inspector who was killed fifteen years ago, and to investigate the death of a rising soccer star. Several ex-IRA men and an Irish mobster are suspects in both murders.
But in the background of the story is another incident that occurred in 1980, other brutal unnecessary murders. After you finish the book, you'll remember the dead voices of these victims. They will haunt you!
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Silly Stuff
I enjoy Hughes' books, but this was an embarrassment. Thankfully, he seems to have learned his lesson, as the rest of the series is really gripping.
Published on 26 Mar 2010 by Noir Fan
embarrassing drivel from an excellent writer
This was embarrassing drivel from Hughes. This type of writing (bad IRA, etc) belongs to the worse kind of garbage coming from British 'writers' in the 70's. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by Cormac Mac
not bad; could have been better
Declan Hughes has a great gift as a story teller and word smith, but unfortunately All The Dead Voices fails by his own top standard. It was almost too predicable. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2010 by Crime Queen
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