Recommended Reads: THE QUIET MAN & ANGELS IN THE MOONLIGHT BY CAIMH MCDONNELL
Angels In The Moonlight is a the third in Caimh McDonnell‘s Dublin Trilogy, which actually consists of five books. Oh, and it’s a prequel too, so pick the bones out of that one!
If you’ve read the first two of the Dublin Trilogy ( A Man With One of Those Faces (2016) & The Day That Never Comes (2017)), you’ll have no-doubt become enamoured with the books’ rambunctious anti-hero Bunny McGarry.
Angels In The Moonlight takes place in 1999 and gives us a fair bit of Bunny’s backstory, as well as introducing us to a group of maverick nuns who feature strongly the later books, including The Quiet Man, where Bunny manages to get himself locked up in the slammer stateside.
Both books are fantastically funny and fast-paced.
Angels in the Moonlight in particular manages to smoothly blend absurdist humour, social realism and fast-moving crime thriller action. Its gripping, hilarious and touching, too. In The Quiet Man, Bunny & The Sisters – not a ’70s Hanna-Barbera cartoon- are back, and are just as good company as ever. Both novels are a joy. Fantastic stuff!