Orchid Blue

Informationen zum Autor Eoin McNamee's novels include Resurrection Man , later made into a film, The Blue Tango , which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Orchid Blue , described by John Burnside in the Guardian as 'not only a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art,' and Blue is the Night which was awarded the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives in Sligo. Klappentext January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie McCrink soon suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs. Vorwort Eoin McNamee's Orchid Blue is a haunting masterpiece, in the vein of David Peace's Red Riding Quartet and the early novels of James Ellroy. Zusammenfassung January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie McCrink soon suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs.

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Eoin McNamee

Product details

• Authors: Eoin McNamee
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9780571237562
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23756-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Blue Trilogy; The Blue Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Crime & mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Detectives; Murder Mystery; True Crime, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary