Declan Hughes (writer)
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.
His most recent novel is All the Things You Are (2014), which follows City of Lost Girls (2010),[1] All the Dead Voices (2009),[2] The Price of Blood (2008),[3] The Dying Breed,[4] The Color of Blood (2007) and [5] The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006).[6]
His plays include Shiver (2003),[7] Digging for Fire and New Morning. [8]
Hughes lives in Dublin with his wife and two daughters.[9]
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)
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