Pauline McLynn è un'autrice irlandese le cui opere sono caratterizzate da un'acuta osservazione e una prospettiva arguta sulle relazioni umane. Attraverso le sue storie, esplora spesso le complessità della vita quotidiana con un umorismo delicato e una profonda comprensione dei suoi personaggi. Il suo stile è accessibile ma perspicace, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza coinvolgente e spesso commovente. McLynn cattura magistralmente le sfumature della cultura irlandese, traducendole nelle pagine dei suoi libri, che risuonano con lettori in tutto il mondo.
MISSING YOU ALREADY is Pauline McLynn at her storytelling best. She creates an utterly enchanting novel about the importance of the little things in life - little things that we so often take for granted but would be lost without...
Intrepid private eye Leo Street is on the trail of an adulterous husband when her clapped-out car causes her cover to be blown. It's time to draft in Ciara Gillespie, the teenage tearaway whom she befriended on her last case. At first, Ciara's madcap methods of surveillance leave a lot to be desired, but soon she's unearthing the secret life of an obstetrician who likes to dabble in genetic engineering... Meanwhile, Leo finds herself in even deeper trouble when she answers the call of Andy Raynor - an old flame who she's never fully extinguished. Sometimes a change isn't necessarily better than a rest...
Pauline McLynn, who shot to fame playing Mrs Doyle in Father Ted, introduces us to an irresistible female private investigator, Leo Street, in her first crime caper. 'A breezy, humorous debut...fast-moving, entertaining' Sunday Tribune schovat popis
Every second counts for private investigator Leo Street on her latest case. She must find a missing teenager in the drug-fuelled streets of Dublin before it's too late. But with a watch that's stopped and a biological clock that's taken over, it's not going to be easy. Leo's irrepressible sidekick Ciara, her mischievous mutt No. 4, and Ciara's gorgeous twin brother Ronan, lend a helping hand. But can they track down the missing girl and save the day, or will a case of bad timing put all their lives at risk?
It's a typical Tuesday evening in Kilbrody. Cathy Long is on her way to collect her drunken father from the pub. Ozzy O'Reilly is in the graveyard, watching the Dublin bus through his binoculars. Charlie Finn is pulling pints, when suddenly it hits he's bored. And that's when the woman from the bus walks through his door and drinks herself into oblivion. Now the whole village wants to know, who is the woman on the bus? The question is, will she tell them?
Pauline McLynn tells the moving story of two women who hardly know each other. One has literally been turfed out on to the street following a divorce from her husband; the other is battling to overcome a tragic loss in her family. What brings them together is nothing more than geography.
An Irish Times bestseller, Bright Lights and Promises is a mesmerising novel that deals with family relationships in touching detail.
Vijftien Ierse auteurs. Moord en doodslag, onveilige seks, schoonmaakartikelen en een gestolen manuscript. En een goed doel. <i>Doodslag in Dublin</i> is een zeer bijzondere, geestige en briljante literaire thriller; als ook een combinatie van satire en hilarische serie-roman. Het goede doel: een belangrijk deel van de opbrengst van het boek zal naar Amnesty International gaan. Vanaf het eerste hoofdstuk. geschreven door niemand minder dan Roddy Doyle, tot en met het laatste, van de hand van Frank McCourt, wordt de lezer in <i>Doodslag in Dublin</i> meegevoerd op een onvergetelijke speurtocht naar een literaire schat met een geheime formule.
