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All The Dead Voices (2009)

by Declan Hughes(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061689882 (ISBN13: 9780061689888)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

William Morrow

series

Ed Loy

review 1: All the Dead Voices jaunts along at a nice pace, with plenty of intrigue and action as private investigator Ed Loy tries to make sense of the two cases he’s taken on that quickly become entwined in lethal ways. Hughes writes with an engaging voice and quickly hooks the reader in. The characterisation and social and historical context is nicely realised, with a good sense of place regarding Dublin and the tail-end of the Celtic Tiger boom and the period immediately prior to the peace process. The story is quite complicated, yet the plot remains clear to follow, with a nice mix of threads and intrigue. However, one does have to suspend one’s sense of belief for the plot to work given the coincidences of the two intersecting plots, Loy's acquaintance with a number of ... morecharacters, and at a number of points I kept wondering why Loy was still alive? Nevertheless, the story is an entertaining and enjoyable addition to the Ed Loy series.
review 2: The first title without "blood" in it and there was a lot of blood spilled in this one, including that of Ed Loy. I think this is the best of the four I've read so far. Ed is hired by a woman to investigate the death of her dad back in 1991. She believes the wrong man has been sent to prison-he was later released. Never mind the man was having an affair with her mother. Of course Ed and her hook up. It's inevitable with Ed Loy. Naturally the police focused on the family suspect instead of the deceased's recent letters to several gangsters about their wealth-the deceased was with the tax commission. Ed in this story doesn't interface much with his Garda contact nor does he use his good friend Tommy much. It's Ed single-handedly against the seedy underworld of gangsters and this time the IRA. Are the police protecting the IRA? Ed hobnobs with the lowlifes and the strata of Dublin society in this one that has a shocking conclusion. These would be great TV shows. Liam Neeson is too old to be Ed and Colin Farrell is too young. Hoping this excellent series gets made into movies or mini-series. Wouldn't this be a great project for Neil Jordan? less

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