- Hardcover: 341 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company (April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060825499
- ISBN-13: 978-0060825492
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,153,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Hardcover
This is the second in the Ed Loy, Private Investigator series, set in Dublin.
Ed Loy is asked by Shane Howard to find his missing daughter Emily. He achieves this early on in the book but, in doing so, finds himself swallowed up in family secrets and deceit.
The pace is fast-moving and the characters cleverly entwined adding suspense in that you are never sure who is telling the truth.
However, I felt that this was not as good as Hughes' debut in that the character responses and behaviours to events seemed wooden at times and lacked intensity especially when the underlying theme was dealing with child abuse. The motives of the villians seemed a bit thin and Loy's character is not sufficiently developed to provide greater connection with him.
The depiction of Dublin is good and overall this is a well worth reading.
Ed Loy is asked by Shane Howard to find his missing daughter Emily. He achieves this early on in the book but, in doing so, finds himself swallowed up in family secrets and deceit.
The pace is fast-moving and the characters cleverly entwined adding suspense in that you are never sure who is telling the truth.
However, I felt that this was not as good as Hughes' debut in that the character responses and behaviours to events seemed wooden at times and lacked intensity especially when the underlying theme was dealing with child abuse. The motives of the villians seemed a bit thin and Loy's character is not sufficiently developed to provide greater connection with him.
The depiction of Dublin is good and overall this is a well worth reading.
Format:Paperback
Declan Hughes comes so close to the feel for modern Dublin with his Ed Loy mysteries. Ed is investigating a missing little rich girl from the south Dublin upper set. This book is great. The characters are fantastic, the plot is good and it just feels so authentically Dublin. If you have lived in Dublin you will have come across people like this, though maybe not had Ed Loy's luck with the ladies. I am looking forward to the next one.
Format:Hardcover
First Sentence: The last case I worked, I found a sixteen-year-old girl for her father; when she told me what he had done to her, I let her stay lost.
PI Ed Loy has been hired to find a dentist's teenaged daughter. The girl's porn filmmaker ex-boyfriend turns up dead and the family seems to no longer care what has happened to the girl. With plenty of suspects from whom to chose, Ed is on his own in sorting this case.
I tried three times to get into this book and just couldn't get past the portents and the stereotypical characters. There were too many characters, none of them likeable or well developed.
The plot was hackneyed and bordered on silly. It just was not interesting to me. I found it a trial to get as far into it as I did.
Mr. Hughes and I are just not made for each other.
PI Ed Loy has been hired to find a dentist's teenaged daughter. The girl's porn filmmaker ex-boyfriend turns up dead and the family seems to no longer care what has happened to the girl. With plenty of suspects from whom to chose, Ed is on his own in sorting this case.
I tried three times to get into this book and just couldn't get past the portents and the stereotypical characters. There were too many characters, none of them likeable or well developed.
The plot was hackneyed and bordered on silly. It just was not interesting to me. I found it a trial to get as far into it as I did.
Mr. Hughes and I are just not made for each other.
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