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Declan Burke

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Mystery, Crime, Humor and Comedy

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Declan Burke is the author of four novels: Eightball Boogie and Slaughter's Hound, both featuring the private eye Harry Rigby; Absolute Zero Cool; and The Big O.

Crime Always Pays, a comedy crime caper, will be published by Severn House in 2014.

He is also the editor of Down These Green Streets, a collection of essays, interviews and short fictions about the rise of Irish crime writing.

With John Connolly, he is the co-editor of Books To Die For, a collection of essays by the world's leading crime writers on the subject of their favourite crime novels and authors.

Eightball Boogie, Absolute Zero Cool and Slaughter's Hound were all shortlisted in the crime fiction category for the Irish Book Awards.

Absolute Zero Cool won the Goldsboro Last L ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,439 ratings · 278 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eight-ball Boogie 3.73 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute Zero Cool 3.51 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big O 3.59 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost and the Blind 3.48 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slaughter's Hound 3.87 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century 3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime Always Pays 3.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trouble Is Our Business: New Stories by Irish Crime Writers by Declan Burke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee Child (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lammisters 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slaughter's Hound really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It’s Good to Talk: Why Dialogue is Fundamental

The reasons why humans developed complex speech are still contested, but as a writer it doesn’t really matter if it’s due to a uniquely shaped hyoid bone, a descended larynx or the FOXP2 gene. What matters is that the brain of ‘the speaking animal’ is hard-wired to respond to speech.
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“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against their will to remain standing. A building is energy crucified against space and time.”
― Declan Burke, Absolute Zero Cool

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“The man at the foot of my bed is too sharply dressed to be anything but a lawyer or a pimp.”
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“Now my future is all behind me …”
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In the Woods by Tana French

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Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor

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Borderlands by Brian McGilloway

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The Lost and the Blind by Declan Burke

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The Guards by Ken Bruen

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