A peek through southside curtains
Crime Fiction: Playwright and co-founder of the
Rough Magic theatre company Declan Hughes first turned his hand to
prose fiction last year with a well-received crime novel,
The Wrong Kind of Blood, featuring private investigator Ed
Loy, who returns for a second outing in this energetic and pacy
thriller, which manages to combine the seedier elements of gangland
Dublin with the supposed sophistication of the southside elite,
while questioning which of the two is the more corrupt, the one
that wears its criminality on its sleeve or the one that masks its
duplicity with a veneer of wealth and privilege. Login or subscribe for more.
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