Crocodile Tears - Couverture souple

O'Sullivan, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848271565 ISBN 13 : 9781848271562

Editeur : Transworld Ireland, 2014

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Leo Woods is a memorable character . . . Studded with dark humour, elegant in style and clever in its execution, Crocodile Tears is a remarkably assured first outing.' - Declan Burke, The Irish Times

Detective Inspector Leo Woods' life is a mess. Work keeps him sane. More or less. On an ice-cold winter morning in an affluent Dublin suburb, he stares down at the bloodied corpse of a property developer. Dermot Brennan's features, distorted in terror, are a reflection of Leo's own disfigured face. Life does that kind of thing to Leo. Makes faces at him.

As a host of suspects emerge, and with the help of ambitious but impetuous Detective Sergeant Helen Troy, Leo uncovers a frosted web of lies, where nobody is quite who they seem. As ice and snow grip Dublin, Woods and Troy find themselves battling forces as malevolent as the weather: jealousy, greed and betrayal. Can they identify the murderer before things get even uglier?

'Well written, gritty, with dark humour and some striking metaphors . . . reminded me of Mankell's Wallander.' - Irish Independent

'Splendidly idiosyncratic and with a leading man who makes Inspector Morse look positively cheerful, this is fine crime writing.' - Daily Mail

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the freezing winter of 2010, with the Irish recession in full flow, property tycoon Dermot Brennan is found dead at his Dublin home. Leading the murder investigation is fifty-six-year-old Detective Inspector Leo Woods, an embittered former UN peacekeeper with a drug habit, a penchant for collecting masks and a face disfigured by Bell's Palsy. DI Woods meets his match in Detective Sergeant Helen Troy, a bright and ambitious but impetuous young policewoman with a troubled family.

A host of suspects quickly emerge - Brennan's estranged son; two of the dead man's former business associates with grudges against him; a young man whose life was ruined after his house, built by Brennan, was flooded; an arrogant sculptor who may or may not have been having an affair with Anna Brennan (and with their neighbour); and an ex-pat American gardener. Together, Woods and Troy weave their way through this tangled web to get to the shocking truth.

Mark O'Sullivan is an exciting new voice in literary crime fiction. Already an acclaimed children's fiction writer, he has produced in Crocodile Tears an excellent murder mystery, which has the depth of character of Kate Atkinson combined with the plotting and ambiguous moral codes of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Transworld Ireland
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1848271565
• ISBN 13: 9781848271562
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416