“Featuring beautifully matched performances from Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan set against gorgeously filmed English countryside, The Dig yields period drama treasures.”
Fiennes is excellent, as always.
This one is no The English Patient — but I could see his performance winning awards.
Fifty Grand was the title of an Ernest Hemmingway short story.
In this Fifty Grand, Mercado, the heroine, is a hot-shot Cuban cop who has fluked a visa to Mexico City so that she can travel from there, via a coyote road, to the Colorado town of Fairview.
Mercado is on a mission to avenge her father’s death in a hit-and-run accident; also to find evidence that he didn’t mean to abandon her on the eve of her all-important 15th birthday.
She poses as an illegal worker at an upscale Ski Resort. Something like Telluride.
McKinty writes no bad books.
But I enjoyed this stand alone book least of those I’ve read.
Excellent and entertaining. Fascinating and original plot. 2005.
Brilliant cop from northern Ireland gets hooked on Heroin. His life in ruins.
Denver, Colorado: a pretty, clever young girl working for an environmental charity, Victoria Patawasti is sleeping peacefully, unaware that she has barely an hour to live.
As her killer slips into her apartment and draws a revolver in the darkness, Alex Lawson wakes up in Belfast. Twenty-four, sickly, and struggling to kick his heroin habit after a disastrous six-month stint in the drug squad of the Northern Ireland police force, Alex badly needs a chance to get back on track.
Victoria was his high school love, and when he finds out she has been murdered, he volunteers to help Victoria’s family hunt down the killer.
But once in Colorado, Alex has a fight on his hands: wanted by both the Colorado cops and the Ulster police, and uncovering corruption at the highest levels of government, he can solve the case only if he manages to stay alive.
All the author’s books are excellent. He’s known for his Sean Duffy series.
This book runs very much in parallel with Sean Duffy. McKinty is trying to have Alex Lawson appear in a Duffy novel.
Rick McCharles 