Declan Hughes
Declan Hughes is an Irish crime writer whose Ed Loy private detective series is set in contemporary Dublin and combines American hard-boiled fiction conventions with specific Irish social reality. His novels were praised for bringing the Los Angeles crime novel to an Irish setting with complete conviction. He is also a prominent playwright.
Works
- The Wrong Kind of BloodPrivate investigator returns to Dublin to solve an old case
- The Colour of BloodMysterious murders shake a small Irish community's foundations
- The Dying BreedDetective investigates connected crimes in Irish underworld
- All the Dead VoicesMurder investigations uncover corruption in Irish criminal world
- City of Lost GirlsDetective hunts for missing girls in Irish crime narrative