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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

Education
  
Trinity College, Dublin

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.

Contents

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.

Novels

  • All The Things You Are (2014)
  • City of Lost Girls (2010) ISBN 978-0-06-168990-1
  • All the Dead Voices (2009) ISBN 978-0-06-168988-8
  • Dying Breed (2008) - US title: The Price of Blood ISBN 978-0-06-082551-5
  • The Colour of Blood (2007) ISBN 978-0-06-082549-2
  • The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006)ISBN 9780060825461

    • Plays

  • I Can't Get Started (1990)
  • Digging for Fire (1991)
  • New Morning (1992)
  • Hallowe'en Night (1992)
  • Love and a Bottle (1992)
  • Twenty Grand (1998)
  • Shiver (2003) ISBN 978-0-413-77361-6
  • The Last Summer (2012)

    • References

    Declan Hughes (writer) Wikipedia
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