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The Midnight Choir

Gene Kerrigan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Jun '07

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A magnificant follow up to Little Criminals from the winner of the 2012 Gold Dagger Award. Frightening, violent, unputdownable.

Sometimes, getting away with it is all that matters.

Dixie Peyton, widow of a petty criminal, is struggling to regain custody of her son. As he finds himself getting deeper into trouble, Dixie risks becoming a sacrifice on the altar of Synnott's career.

Meanwhile the police have arrested a blood-stained man.

Sometimes, getting away with it is all that matters.

Dixie Peyton, widow of a petty criminal, is struggling to regain custody of her son. In desperation she seeks the help of controversial detective Harry Synnott, a man obsessed by his own interpretation of justice. But Synnott has other priorities. As he finds himself getting deeper into trouble, Dixie risks becoming a sacrifice on the altar of Synnott's career.

Meanwhile the police have arrested a blood-stained man. They seem to have chanced upon a murderer - now they need to find out who he killed. Ruthless gangland leader Lar Mackendrick is hunting an informer. And armed thief Joshua Boyce is about to rob a jeweller's shop. For all of them, as the pressure mounts and the choices become stark, getting away with it is all that matters.

Fresh and radical * Independent *
Absorbing, beautifully written, gritty * The Times *
Kerrigan has always been one of this country's leading journalists. With this novel, he becomes one of its leading writers. TheMidnight Choir is both riveting and disquieting * Irish Times *
The writing is fiercely unsentimental, the plotting complex and the characterisation pleasingly contrary ... [This] will stay with you for a long time * Metro *

ISBN: 9780099483762

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm

Weight: 245g

352 pages