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),WorldCat All the Dead Voices (2009),WorldCat The Price of Blood (2008),WorldCat The Dying Breed,[9780719567506 WorldCat] The Color of Blood (2007)WorldCat and The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006).WorldCat
His plays include Shiver (2003),WorldCat Digging for Fire and New Morning.WorldCat
Hughes lives in Dublin with his wife and two daughters.Kevin Burton Smith, "Bloodwork", January Magazine, June 2007.
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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)
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