Declan Hughes (writer) explained

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)^[5] and 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]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006) –
• The Colour of Blood (2007) –
• Dying Breed (2008) –
• All the Dead Voices (2009) –
• City of Lost Girls (2010) –
• All the Things You Are (2014)

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) –
• The Last Summer (2012)

Notes and References

1. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/419856687 WorldCat
2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/258770329 WorldCat
3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156814752 WorldCat
4. 9780719567506 WorldCat
5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76901905 WorldCat
6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61264353 WorldCat
7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52847635 WorldCat
8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30546636 WorldCat
9. Kevin Burton Smith, "Bloodwork", January Magazine, June 2007.