by Gene Kerrigan
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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