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Also by Declan Hughes:

The City Of Lost Girls, March 2010
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All The Dead Voices, July 2009
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The Price Of Blood, June 2009
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The Price of Blood, March 2008
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The Color of Blood, March 2008
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The Wrong Kind of Blood, March 2006
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The Wrong Kind of Blood
Declan Hughes

Ed Loy #1
William Morrow
March 2006
Featuring: Ed Loy
320 pages
ISBN: 0060825464
EAN: 9780060825461
Hardcover
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Thriller | Mystery

After more than two decades away, private detective Ed Loy returns from L.A. to his hometown of Dublin for his mother's funeral. But his grieving soon takes an unexpected turn when his old classmate Linda Dawson pleads with him to find her missing husband, Peter. As if a worried wife with a seductive persona weren't enough to keep Loy occupied, his childhood pal turned small-time criminal, Tommy Owens, shows up on Loy's doorstep with a hard-luck story and a recently fired gun.

When Loy finds an old photograph of his long-missing father on Peter Dawson's boat, and a corpse is discovered in the foundations of the local town hall, things begin to get personal. Then a murky property deal linked to the Dawson family not only threatens to expose the corrupt secrets concealed behind the great gates of the mansions on the hill, but also leads Loy to the land below, a violent underworld of drug dealing, extortion, and murder presided over by the notorious Halligan brothers, local purveyors of organized criminal mayhem.

As he tries to lay the dead to rest, the case becomes a dark obsession, and Ed Loy finds that the truth of the present can only be fully understood by uncovering the secrets of the past, and that in Ireland, everything -- and everyone -- is connected.

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