Name Declan Hughes Role Novelist | Movies My Friend Joe | |
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Awards Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel Nominations Edgar Award for Best Novel Books The Wrong Kind of Blood: An, The Color of Blood: An Irish N, The Price of Blood, City of Lost Girls, All the Dead Voices | ||
Declan Hughes (born 1963) is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He has been Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Irish Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written a series of crime novels featuring the Irish-American detective Ed Loy. The name "Loy" is a homage to the character Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon: a loy is a traditional Irish spade.
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His most recent novel is City of Lost Girls (2010), which follows All the Dead Voices (2009), The Price of Blood (2008), The Dying Breed, The Color of Blood (2007) and The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006).
His plays include Shiver (2003), Digging for Fire and New Morning.
Hughes lives in Dublin with his wife and two daughters.
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