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Ed Loy, a private investigator seeking to leave his troubled past behind, is drawn into a complex web of murder and betrayal in Dublin. When approached by Anne Fogarty, who believes her father's killer remains free, Loy must confront his old nemesis and navigate a landscape filled with former IRA members. As he investigates her father's murder and the suspicious death of a soccer star, Loy finds himself entangled in a dangerous clash between the city's tumultuous history and its present struggles.

A new executive breed is emerging on the outskirts of Dublin - where once there was a sense of history and socialism, the corporate moguls have enslaved the idealists and turned them into entrepreneurs. Marion and Kevin find their emotional prosperity threatened by an economic squall.

One of the preeminent Irish playwrights of his generation, published on the Methuen list alongside great contemporary Irish playwrights such as Sebastian Barry and Tom Murphy Includes his widely acclaimed plays, Digging for Fire "Savagely comic account of a disastrous, booze-fuelled college reunion" (Daily Telegraph), New Morning "This is one of those rare plays that really does have you on the edge of your seat, frantic to know what is going to happen next" (Daily Telegraph), Halloween Night "Declan Hughes's compelling darkly funny reunion drama...has supernatural overtones but a very human message" (Evening Standard); Love in a Bottle (after George Farquhar) "Hughes's dialogue drips with sexual juices...a raunchy treat" (Time Out).Love in a Bottle and Digging for Fire won the Time Out Award in 1992

A missing person's case leads private investigator Ed Loy to the enigmatic Tyrrell family, known for their connections to horse racing. With limited information from Father Vincent Tyrrell, Loy uncovers a web of secrets tied to the clan. As he delves into their troubled past, the stakes rise with the deaths of two more individuals linked to the family. Set against the backdrop of a major sporting event in Ireland, Loy races against time to thwart a cunning killer's sinister agenda.

There's a killer on the loose. He kills the lost girls. And he always kills in threes.

'The night of my mother's funeral, Linda Dawson cried on my shoulder, put her tongue in my mouth and asked me to find her husband. Now she was lying dead on her living room floor, and the howl of a police siren echoed through the surrounding hills . . . ' Ed Loy hasn't been back to Dublin for twenty years. But his mother has died, and he has returned home to bury her. Loy soon realizes that the world waiting for him is very different from the one he left behind all those years ago. When an old school friend asks him to investigate the disappearance of her husband, Loy reluctantly agrees. And suddenly in this place where he grew up - among the Georgian houses, Victorian castles, and modern villas of Castlehill - Loy finds himself thrown into a world of organized crime, long-hidden secrets, corruption and murder.

Clare Taylor arrives home after a wild week in Chicago to discover that the house has been stripped bare and there's no sign of her husband and two daughters. By dawn next morning, her house has been foreclosed against, there's a dead body in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976.

Was begehrt man? Das, was man täglich sieht … Emily, die Tochter des renommierten Dubliner Zahnarztes Shane Howard, wird vermisst. Kurz darauf findet man dessen Ehefrau Jessica erstochen auf. Ist Shane der Täter oder hat jemand eine Rechnung mit der Howard-Dynastie zu begleichen? Bei seinen Ermittlungen stößt Privatdetektiv Ed Loy auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Die Vergangenheit der Familie ist voller Geheimnisse. Viele davon sind schmutzig, manche tödlich …

«Declan Hughes liefert großes Drama!» (Thomas Wörtche) Der Mord, den Privatdetektiv Ed Loy aufklären soll, liegt fünfzehn Jahre zurück. Das Opfer: Brian Fogarty, Angestellter der Finanzbehörde. Der Angeklagte: Steve Owen, Liebhaber von Fogartys Frau. Doch Owen ist offenbar unschuldig. Im Zuge der Ermittlungen stößt Ed Loy auf drei potenzielle Täter: Bobby Doyle, früheres IRA-Mitglied, jetzt Immobilienhai mit besten Beziehungen. Jack Cullen, gefürchteter Drogenboss. Und George Halligan, ein alter Bekannter Ed Loys …