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The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Betrayal  [ AWARD WINNER]

The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Betrayal [ AWARD WINNER]

The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Betrayal  [ AWARD WINNER]
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The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Betrayal [ AWARD WINNER]

by Hughes, Declan

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N.Y.: William Morrow & Co, 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and a CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. A superbly woven tale of suspense from award winning playright Declan Hughes and introducing PI Ed Loy . Loy returns to Ireland from California to bury his mother and lands himself in a knotty thicket of iniquity, as the Irish real-estate boom unearths old corpses and creates a few new ones. Retained by a profligate lady friend to find her missing husband, Loy wades into the labyrinthine dealings of two conspicuous families, the land--developing Dawsons and the drug-dealing Halligans, who may have more in common than either would like to admit. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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After twenty years in Los Angeles, Ed Loy has come home to bury his mother. But hers is only the first dead body he encounters after crossing an ocean.The city Loy once knew is an unrecognizable place, filled with gangsters, seducers, hucksters, and crazies, each with a scheme and an angle. But he can't refuse the sexy former schoolmate who asks him to find her missing husband—or the old pal-turned-small time criminal who shows up on Loy's doorstep with a hard-luck story and a recently fired gun. Suddenly, a tragic homecoming could prove fatal for the grieving investigator, as an unexplained photograph of his long-vanished father, a murky property deal, and a corpse discovered in the foundations of town hall combine to turn a curious case into a dark obsession—dragging Ed Loy into a violent underworld of drugs, extortion, and murder ... and through his own haunted past where the dead will never rest.

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Title
The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Betrayal [ AWARD WINNER]
Author
Hughes, Declan
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0060825464
ISBN 13
9780060825461
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Place of Publication
N.Y.
Date Published
2006
Keywords
Award Winner, Debut Novel, Ireland, Mystery, Crime, Private Eye,
Bookseller catalogs
Private Eye; Private Investigator; FIRST BOOK; IRELAND; First Mystery;

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