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What's in a name? Apparently everything for Ed Loy, because that's the only information Father Vincent Tyrrell, brother of prominent racehorse trainer F. X. Tyrrell, offers when he asks for Ed's help in finding a missing person. Even the best private eye needs more than just a name, but hard times and a dwindling bank account make it difficult for Loy to say no.He is not without luck, however. While working another case, Loy discovers a phone number that seems linked to F.X. found on an show more unidentified body. Thinking it more than a coincidence, he begins digging into the history of the Tyrrells—a history consumed with trading and dealing, gambling and horse breeding—and soon realizes there is more to the family than meets the eye, a suspicion confirmed when two more people with connections to the Tyrrells are killed.
On the eve of one of Ireland's most anticipated sporting events, the four-day Leopardstown Race-course Christmas Festival, all bets are off as Loy pursues a twisted killer on the final leg of a reckless master plan.
In The Price of Blood, Declan Hughes once again paints an arresting portrait of an Ireland not found in any guidebooks. Deadly passions beget dark secrets in a chilling story that will have readers on edge right up to its shocking conclusion.
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I have read two other books in this series and this one was the best, all of them have been great.
Dublin Ireland in the early 2000’s. A horse racing family, with many secrets, the atrocities committed by the Catholic Church with the running boy’s schools and orphanages. This story gets darker and darker as it goes.
Dublin Ireland in the early 2000’s. A horse racing family, with many secrets, the atrocities committed by the Catholic Church with the running boy’s schools and orphanages. This story gets darker and darker as it goes.
It doesn't make any difference what the plot of this third Ed Loy novel is.. Mystery lovers in years past bought a Ross Macdonald story, or a Raymond Chandler, or Dashiell Hammett as now we buy a Robert Crais or Robert Parker or John Grisham book. We know we're going to get the best Noir, Thriller, Mystery, Crime novel available.. the plot is of little consequence.
Yes.. Declan Hughes is that good. A talented professional who transports us, vicariously, into his world for a few hours at a time, and makes us feel good that we're able to return to our own relatively safe and sane world, before turning off the lights at the end of the day!
Yes.. Declan Hughes is that good. A talented professional who transports us, vicariously, into his world for a few hours at a time, and makes us feel good that we're able to return to our own relatively safe and sane world, before turning off the lights at the end of the day!
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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 Wrong Type of Blood, which introduced Irish-American show more 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) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Price of Blood
- Alternate titles
- The Price of Blood; The Dying Breed
- Original publication date
- 2009
- People/Characters
- Ed Loy
- Important places
- Dublin, Ireland
- Epigraph
- [Part I]
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you like, but remember, it didn't work for the rabbit.
--R. E. Shay
The Turf, and long may we be above it.
--Jorrocks' Toast
[Part II]
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief of priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have b... (show all)etrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for them to be put into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
--Matthew 27: 3-6
[Part III]
FERDINAND: Strangling is a very quiet death.
DUCHESS: I'll tell thee a miracle;
I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow;
Th' heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass,
The earth of f... (show all)laming sulphur, yet I am not mad.
I am acquainted with sad misery,
As the tann'd galley-slave is with his oar;
Necessity makes me suffer constantly,
And custom makes it easy.
--John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi - Dedication
- To Alan Glynn
- First words
- Three weeks before Christmas, Father Vincent Tyrrell asked Tommy Owens to fill in for George Costello, who had been the sacristan at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Bayview for thirty years until he was rushed to t... (show all)he hospital with inoperable stomach cancer.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Where's my mother?" she said.
- Disambiguation notice
- Published as "The Dying Breed" in UK and as "The Price of Blood" in USA.
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