The Midnight Choir
by:
Gene Kerrigan (author)
"An absorbing, beautifully written tale."-The Times (London) A sophisticated crime story of contemporary Ireland, The Midnight Choir teems with moral dilemmas as Dublin emerges as a city of ambiguity: a newly scrubbed face hiding a criminal culture of terrible variety. Small-time criminals have...
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"An absorbing, beautifully written tale."-The Times (London) A sophisticated crime story of contemporary Ireland, The Midnight Choir teems with moral dilemmas as Dublin emerges as a city of ambiguity: a newly scrubbed face hiding a criminal culture of terrible variety. Small-time criminals have become millionaire businessmen, the poor are still struggling to survive, and the police face a world where the old rules no longer apply. "Believe me, you want The Midnight Choir with you on holiday," says The Sunday Business Post. "This is the kind of book you pass on to someone you like, and say read this.'"
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933372266 (1933372265)
Publish date: April 1st 2007
Publisher: Europa Editions
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Just for the character of Harry Synnott the book is worth reading. His recognition at the end regarding his failings comes dramatically and brutally, and I was left to ponder whether he would be able to deal with his self-realization. And then something happened. The story stopped suddenly so that I...
Just for the character of Harry Synnott the book is worth reading. His recognition at the end regarding his failings comes dramatically and brutally, and I was left to ponder whether he would be able to deal with his self-realization. And then something happened. The story stopped suddenly so that ...
The Midnight Choir is very similar in pacing to Gene Kerrigan's previous book in the trilogy, Little Criminals. There is a lot of exposition and setting up tension between characters (most often by those characters committing a crime) that ends up exploding in the last 50 pages or so. It's a very d...
Sharp and punchy prose and wit, even as its narrative structure juggles a slew of increasingly-connected characters, all finely-etched and compelling. The plot sprawls and contracts with increasing rhythm, and it gets the blood pumping. A really fine crime novel, if not really reinventing the genr...
Set in modern day Dublin the book follows various characters of different social standings that all come into contact with a Dublin detective inspector who is working on serveral cases that all converge in a logical way for a slam bang ending.
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