Seems like a pretty easy case to Loy . . . until people start dying. The very same day that Loy meets Howard, Emily's mother and ex-boyfriend are brutally stabbed to death. But that's only the beginning.
Loy discovers that the Howard family is not all that it seems. For years their name has stood for progress and improvement within Dublin's medical community, but that is only what's on the surface. The true legacy of the Howards is one of scandalous secrets, the type that are best left unearthed. Against his better judgment, Loy is drawn into the very center of the Howards' sordid family history, and what he finds could ruin more than reputations.
First Line: "The last case I worked, I found a sixteen-year-old girl for her father, when she told me what he had done to her, I let her stay lost."
Random Quote: "You could say the porn industry is based on a whole bunch of angry, abused women 'acting out.' And we ignore their pain and pretend to believe them when they say they're reclaiming the control that was stolen from them, that they're 'empowered'; they were already degraded as children, and we become complicit in their further degradation as disturbed, malformed adults; we're like the keepers in an asylum, raping the patients over and over again and insisting they're in charge."
Review: I have struggled through this book as much, if not more so, than I did with The Wrong Kind of Blood. Big disappointment after City of Lost Girls.
Dublin by night - Image via WikipediaMr. Hughes is working really hard at writing an Irish hardboiled detective novel, but this just doesn't work for me. The book sort of plods along with plenty of grim and depressing happenings and just not much going on that I care about. I don't care whodunit. I don't care why. I just want it to be over.
FTC Disclosure: San Leandro Public Library
Rating: White
This sounds like one I should skip...I like books set in Ireland, but plodding plots make me crazy
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