A review by liberrydude
All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes

4.0

The first title without "blood" in it and there was a lot of blood spilled in this one, including that of Ed Loy. I think this is the best of the four I've read so far. Ed is hired by a woman to investigate the death of her dad back in 1991. She believes the wrong man has been sent to prison-he was later released. Never mind the man was having an affair with her mother. Of course Ed and her hook up. It's inevitable with Ed Loy. Naturally the police focused on the family suspect instead of the deceased's recent letters to several gangsters about their wealth-the deceased was with the tax commission. Ed in this story doesn't interface much with his Garda contact nor does he use his good friend Tommy much. It's Ed single-handedly against the seedy underworld of gangsters and this time the IRA. Are the police protecting the IRA? Ed hobnobs with the lowlifes and the strata of Dublin society in this one that has a shocking conclusion. These would be great TV shows. Liam Neeson is too old to be Ed and Colin Farrell is too young. Hoping this excellent series gets made into movies or mini-series. Wouldn't this be a great project for Neil Jordan?