{"product_id":"city-of-lost-girls-isbn-9780061689918","title":"City of Lost Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Ed Loy is…more than worthy of a place among the great creations of Chandler and Hammett. Hughes is simply the best Irish crime novelist of his generation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—John Connolly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShamus Award winner and Edgar® Award nominee Declan Hughes does for Dublin what Dennis Lehane does for his native Boston. In \u003cem\u003eCity of Lost Girls, \u003c\/em\u003e“Ireland’s Ross MacDonald” (\u003cem\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e) transports his private investigator, Ed Loy, from the Emerald Isle to the mean streets of Los Angeles and into the sordid heart of Hollywood in search of three young missing woman. \u003cem\u003eCity of Lost Girls \u003c\/em\u003eis unrelentingly exciting and refreshingly intelligent—another shining example of how Hughes “demonstrates that the private detective novel can be vital, modern, and relevant in the right hands” (Laura Lippman).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eDublin PI Ed Loy thought he had laid all his ghosts to rest. But when two young women go missing from a film set, he knows his past has caught up with him. Twenty years ago, three girls disappeared while Loy's longtime friend, film director Jack Donovan, was shooting a movie in Malibu. They were never found. Now Donovan's filming an Irish historical epic on location—and production grinds to a halt when two female cast members fail to show up to work. Fearing that Donovan or one of his close associates is responsible, Loy races to uncover the truth before a third girl vanishes—a hunt that's pulling him far from home, back to L.A., leaving a cunning killer free to strike at what's dearest to Ed Loy's heart.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Declan Hughes’ detective novels. . . . owe a literary debt less to Hammett and Chandler than to Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer books, family melodrama disguised as P.I. fiction. . . . Hughes’ third go-round with private eye Ed Loy tips its narrative hat to Sophocles and other purveyors of Greek tragedy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times on THE PRICE OF BLOOD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Hughes is a highly impressive noir newcomer to this field.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times on THE PRICE OF BLOOD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Declan Hughes once again demonstrates that the private detective novel can be vital, modern and relevant in the right hands…. Here’s hoping that Ed Loy, the anchor of this standout series, is up to taking a few more beatings.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Lippman, bestselling author of What the Dead Know and Life Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It doesn’t get much better than finding a writer you really enjoy and then discovering he already has four books under his belt.... Everyone who pops up in these pages is delightfully quirky, in a dark sort of way, and has me reserving copies of the previous book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable series of noir crime novels that impressively graft the hard-boiled detective style onto contemporary Dublin.... A violent climax worthy of Hughes’ hard-boiled American antecedents.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hughes’s characters have depth, his scenes have drama, and his sentences have grace.... [A] gifted Irish writer.... The characters who count...are substantial figures with considerable heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hughes’ prose is lush, rich with detail, peppered with historical and literary references.... Hughes is not only a novelist but also a veteran playwright and screenwriter — and reading his novels is not unlike watching an epic movie unfold on the big screen.... The suspense is irresistible. The writing is superb, at times bordering on poetry. And the characters are superbly drawn — so real that you could almost shoot them yourself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Ko, author of The Leavers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Relentless, wayward, compassionate and all too human, Ed Loy is a Classic hard-boiled private detective, more than worthy of a place among the Great creations of Chandler and Hammett.  Hughes is simply the best Irish crime novelist of his generation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Connolly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hughes’ brilliant creation of the charismatic Donovan propels the story.... Donovan is ‘a carouser extraordinaire,’ ‘a mad wayward bastard’...and mesmerizes nearly every character in the book. Not even the smart, formidable Loy is immune, and neither is the reader.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Declan Hughes does for Dublin what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles, warts and all. If you don’t love this, don’t dare call yourself a crime fiction fan. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVal McDermid, author of A Place of Execution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887874732261,"sku":"NP9780061689918","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061689918.jpg?v=1730227641","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/city-of-lost-girls-isbn-9780061689918","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}