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Dead Irish

Name: Dead Irish
ISBN: 9780451214270

John Lescroart

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 1, 2005

Reading lane: Hard-Boiled Mystery

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Why This Clicks

Peace, Interrupted

A former cop’s hoped-for quiet gives way to old secrets and personal stakes.

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A hard-boiled mystery shaped by personal loss and unfinished business

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A bartender’s uneasy return to a past he hoped to leave behind
Old secrets, raw passions, and lives still at risk

Book Details

Authors: John Lescroart
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: February 1, 2005
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Hard-Boiled Mystery · Police Procedurals
Reading lane: Hard-Boiled Mystery

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Action & Adventure
Hard-Boiled Mystery
Crime Fiction

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THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING DISMAS HARDY SERIES! In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He’s left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it’s not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss—but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and round of darts. But when the news of Eddie Cochran’s death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he was trying to escape. And forced to untangle a web of old secrets and raw passions, for the sake of Eddie’s pregnant widow, Frannie—and for the others whose lives may still be at risk...