A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy)

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Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history . . . Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together, they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history… If you like stories by Colin Bateman, Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey and Janet Evanovich then you’ll enjoy A Man With One of Those Faces.” **** – The View from the Blue House (see full review here) Side characters were really well done. Although Paul and Brigit are the main characters, there are a number of side ones that pop in and out of the plot. Dr. Sinha rapidly became my favorite guest appearance:

The sky was the colour of wet newspaper, and it seemed to be bleeding into the day, making everything look like a bad photocopy of itself.” It’s a tried and tested device in crime novels, to have an innocent bystander turned into a runaway criminal through mysterious conspiracies. That, and having a beautiful, funny girl as his partner in crime and/or assistant detective. Although, in the end, this was just another crime drama with people being shot, stabbed, beaten up and strangled, the author's tone made it more fun getting there than in most books of this type. If you prefer your noir more hard-boiled, you may find this twee and unworthy of your time. The author was working for humor and sympathy rather than menace and dread. What I particularly loved about this book was how incredibly fast-paced it was, especially once we were on the run with Paul and Brigit. I’m not usually a huge fan of crime thrillers because the plots can spiral wildly out of the author’s control, but McDonnell creates a captivating plot with enough juicy twists to prevent it becoming predictable. It’s also bursting with humour; for a face that screams ‘nothing special’, Paul is an extremely witty character. Although it’s written in third person, it still feels like you’re following Paul’s thoughts – and his commentary on the severity of his situation is very funny. All the characters are given rich stories and are well-developed, even down to Brigit’s ex-fiance who sports an alarmingly odd head of hair thanks to a recent hair transplant. Paul Mulchrone can easily blend in a crowd due to his forgettable, ordinary appearance. Spurred by a malicious inheritance from an aunt, Paul is trying to turn his nondescript features into an asset. Forced by the terms of the will to do a number of hours of community work if he wants to receive his weekly pay from lawyers, Paul goes around to hospitals in the Dublin area, impersonating long lost relatives to old people with cognitive issues.It surely wasn’t some kind of coincidence What were the odds that he and Wilson had stumbled upon an unrelated ambush? This was Dublin: assassination wasn’t that common a pastime. He has such a facial feature — a completely expressionless appearance, behind which old people see who is their grandson, who is their son, who is the niece's boyfriend. He is obviously not rich and it is not entirely clear why he spends his young life on an occupation that does not bring income. That is, it is clear. when at the call of the heart, but in this case they do not record the time of arrival and departure.

Paul Mulchrone lives a meagre, lonely existence, working part time in a hospice as a companion to elderly residents (a ‘granny whisperer’) - he’s not very brave, faints at the sight of blood and is a bit of a whinger. In his favour, he’s a pleasant, mild mannered young bloke with a good sense of humour.Did she?” “It was in The Herald,” she confided. “Apparently you can’t move for Chinese lads these days. I don’t know what’s happening at all. You’d be afraid to go out at night.” BUNNY MCGARRY…Bunny is everything you imagine a cop NOT to look or sound like, with a loud foul mouth albeit a very funny one at that. He is an old school Police Officer who keeps an eye on his neighbourhood, making his own rules and punishments as he wonders the streets. He has one main goal and that is to always look out for the locals especially 'his boys'. Bunny is not known for doing things by the book.