Лучшие книги Деклана Хьюз

Ирландцы говорят - человек, покинувший Изумрудный остров, обязательно вернется. И теперь бывший полицейский из Нью-Йорка Эдвард Лоу приезжает в Ирландию, в маленький городок своего детства. Однако возвращение не сулит ему ничего, кроме проблем. Подруга детства Линда просит его найти своего бесследно пропавшего мужа, Питера Доусона. Эдвард без особой охоты начинает расследование - и неожиданно понимает: исчезновение Питера напрямую связано с серией загадочных убийств, которые вот уже двадцать лет держат в страхе обитателей городка. Первой жертвой таинственного убийцы когда-то стал отец Эдварда. А жертвой последней, возможно, станет…

Ирландцы говорят: потерять ребенка - значит, потерять жизнь.
И бывший нью-йоркский полицейский Эдвард Лоу, вернувшийся на Изумрудный остров и ставший там частным детективом, искренне сострадает горю врача Шейна Говарда, умоляющего его о помощи.
Дочь Шейна, Эмили, исчезла, а отцу кто-то прислал фотографии, на которых она изображена в непристойных позах.
Возможно, девушку похитили? Или она попала к торговцам "живым товаром"?
Эдвард начинает расследование, но все, кто располагает хоть какой-то информацией о местонахождении Эмили, погибают от рук неизвестного убийцы.
Полиция в замешательстве.
Частный детектив понимает: ему придется самому найти преступника - иначе Эмили станет следующей жертвой...

About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming an actress abandoned, there's no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Clare Taylor has settled. A wild week in Chicago may have shaken things up a bit, but as she turns her key in her Madison, Wisconsin home on the eve of Hallowe'en, she knows that what happened with her ex was nothing more than a distraction, that this is where her life is.

Except it's all gone. The furniture gone, the house stripped, her husband Danny, her daughters, all gone; no message; no note, nothing. Outside in the dark, searching for a sign, she steps in one: the eviscerated body of the family dog.

By dawn next morning, her supposedly mortgage-free home has been foreclosed against, one of Danny's childhood friends lies dead in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976. A nightmare that reaches its terrifying climax thirty-five years later.

Dublin PI Ed Loy tackles a case that takes him back to Los Angeles -- his home of twenty years -- and a past he'd rather forget in this gripping new novel in the Edgar Award-nominated and Shamus Award-winning series.

Ed Loy has laid his ghosts to rest. He's been back in his hometown of Dublin for several years, his work is wearing but steady, and he's in his first loving relationship since the death of his daughter caused the ruin of his marriage six years ago. But when two girls go missing from a Dublin film set, Loy knows his past has caught up with him.

Loy's longtime friend, film director Jack Donovan, is shooting his next movie, an Irish historical epic. Donovan and his three right-hand men -- together, the Gang of Four -- have made numerous movies together spanning several decades, but the new film is primed to be their masterpiece. Production grinds to a halt, though, when not one but two female cast members fail to show up to work. Chances are they're party girls sleeping off a late night, but the circumstances feel familiar to Loy. A little too familiar. Twenty years ago, three girls disappeared from a movie Donovan was shooting in Malibu and their bodies were never found. Today, Loy has a sinking feeling in his heart: Those girls are gone.

Knowing that one of the film crew -- maybe even Jack Donovan himself -- is responsible for the girls' disappearances, Loy races to uncover the truth before a third girl goes missing. And in order to find answers, he must return to L.A. and delve deep into his past. But while he's so far from home, a cunning killer seizes the chance to strike at what's closest to Ed Loy's heart.

Ed Loy has made some changes. He has moved into a flat in the city centre, leaving behind his family home: he wants to break free of the ghosts of his past, to live in the present. But if that's what he wants for his own life, it's not always what his clients will permit: the baggage they bring with them propel him back into the past.

What's in a name? Apparently everything for Ed Loy, because that's the only information Father Vincent Tyrrell, brother of prominent racehorse trainer F. X. Tyrrell, offers when he asks for Ed's help in finding a missing person. Even the best private eye needs more than just a name, but hard times and a dwindling bank account make it difficult for Loy to say no.

He is not without luck, however. While working another case, Loy discovers a phone number that seems linked to F.X. found on an unidentified body. Thinking it more than a coincidence, he begins digging into the history of the Tyrrells—a history consumed with trading and dealing, gambling and horse breeding—and soon realizes there is more to the family than meets the eye, a suspicion confirmed when two more people with connections to the Tyrrells are killed.

On the eve of one of Ireland's most anticipated sporting events, the four-day Leopardstown Race-course Christmas Festival, all bets are off as Loy pursues a twisted killer on the final leg of a reckless master plan.

In The Price of Blood, Declan Hughes once again paints an arresting portrait of an Ireland not found in any guidebooks. Deadly passions beget dark secrets in a chilling story that will have readers on edge right up to its shocking conclusion.