by Stephan Talty
In the mood for some crime? I got just the thing: BLACK IRISH, a cop's homecoming to blighted Buffalo, New York, to care for her dying father. She has to solve the torture-murders of men she knew as a child before her father is next. http://tinyurl.com/q92xyfl Human nature doesn't shock me, but ...
In his debut novel in fiction writing Stephan Talty creates a story that will have the lead detective looking to the past to find the killer of today.Absalom “Abbie” Kearney is the adopted daughter of a revered cop, but that does not mean that Abbie ever fit in with her family or the neighbourhood g...
In “Black Irish” we follow Detective Absalom (Abbie) Kearney in her hunt for a brutal murderer who is striking at the heart of the Irish American community in Buffalo. Thwarted at every turn as the close knit community of “the county” close ranks around its own, she is bound and determined to break ...
A gruesome serial killer has arisen in South Buffalo, a working-class Irish-American neighborhood known as “The County” (the unofficial 27th part of Ireland.) Detective Absalom Kearney, recently returned to Buffalo to care for her father and make a fresh start, is assigned the case. Abbie must deal ...
I won a copy from the Goodreads First Reads giveaway.The book was pretty good. I enjoyed the storyline and the pace. I would like to get to know Abbie better.
Read my full review: http://bit.ly/16ygRuaMy opinion: It is very hard to impress me, but I loved this book. With how much I read, I am really getting bored with story lines that have the same "theme". The story line was incredibly unique and laid out well. There were a couple of moments in the book ...
This got off to a good start. Even though there are oodles of novels about serial killers, the plot was developing tension and going along nicely. Then the author goes off on a tangent and brings in an unlikely secret Irish clan. At this point the book starts going downhill. Sticking with the main t...
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