There's a killer on the loose. He kills the lost girls. And he always kills in threes.
City of Lost Girls, Declan Hughes
Okay, so having finally worked out that this review has never actually made it into the light of day, for reasons which, well no reason. Let's just say idiocy on my part and move on.
CITY OF THE LOST GIRLS deserves much better attention than I've given it. The fifth book in the Ed Loy series, Loy is one of those rumpled Irish PI types, part philospher, part hardman, and in this book he's walking the mean streets of Dublin and LA.
Quintessentially Irish in the descriptions and observations sprinkled throughout the book, it comes as no surprise to recently (did I mention I've been under a rock for a while...) realise that Declan Hughes has a background as a playwright. Not to the level that makes any of these books read like a film treatment mind you.
It's just a great series, and finding CITY OF LOST GIRLS in a pile that I should have paid attention to a while ago bought that memory back in spades.