The Good Life - Inspector Matt Minogue Author:John Brady The fifth in Brady's Inspector Matt Minogue series is another well-written police procedural set in Ireland. Brady excels in juxtaposing the cheerful robustness of spirit with the dark melancholy that permeates the true Irish soul. Policeman Minogue is a quintessential Irishman, with his keen wit, his own brand of sarcastic charm, and his de... more »dicated, if occasionally world-weary, professionalism.
His latest case involves Mary Mullen, a former prostitute whose battered body is fished out of a Dublin canal. Piecing together the story of Mary's dreary life, Minogue soon discovers that while she has managed to keep her name off the police blotter for several years, she may have traded the relatively "safe" career of prostitution for a much more dangerous one involving the Egans, a notoriously vicious Dublin gang.« less
ISBN-13: 9780312130831 ISBN-10: 031213083X Publication Date: 1995 Pages:346 Edition:1st U.S. ed Rating: