Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs (2020)

From the Publisher:
An NYPD detective travels to Ireland to investigate his own family's past in this "smart, textured, immensely readable" mystery (The Washington Post Book World).

Neil Hockaday's father died in World War II before his son could ever know him, and now the police detective is visiting Ireland to meet his last living relative and try to fill in the blanks of his family history. But while he's on vacation, death isn't taking a holiday. The apparent suicides of a retired priest and two cops -- and an Irish woman's death in a bombing -- combine to keep Hock busy on both sides of the Atlantic in this rich, riveting police procedural, filled with "lively and literate" dialogue, from an Edgar Award-winning author (The New York Times Book Review).

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504059985 (January, 2020), 6.9 MB (ca. 320 p.), $11.99.

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs (2011)

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The third Neil Hockaday mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dark Maze. New York detective Hockaday of the S.C.U.M. patrol (Street Crimes Unit - Manhattan) journeys to Ireland to search for the truth about his father, who vanished during World War II.

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. Atria Books, ISBN: 9781451646610 (May, 2011), 352 p., $21.99.

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs (2004)

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"The case is yours, I fear," Police Captain Davy Mogaill said. "And what grander case may a detective crack than the mystery of his own makings?"
Detective Neil Hockaday, hero of New York's elite S.C.U.M. (Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan) patrol, has a single clue to the father he never knew, an Irish soldier who vanished in World War II -- a photograph with an unfamiliar verse of poetry on the back. After a fine Saturday spent over too many drinks with Davy Mogaill, he is no further enlightened. And Father Tim Kelly offers no answers -- only a strange medallion he presses into Hock's hand, without explanation, before Hock and his beautiful leading lady, actress Ruby Flagg, board a jet to Ireland, summoned to visit Hock's dying Uncle Liam... and perhaps to learn more about his own father.

Hardly have they set foot on Irish soil when they're witnesses to a brutal murder. Hock's hostile questioning by the Dublin police is soon followed by news from New York of Father Tim's shocking death and Davy Mogaill's disappearance. Suspicious minds are now linking Hock to crimes on both sides of the water. But at his Uncle Liam's opulent home in Dùn Laoghaire, Hock discovers the first of many surprises-and edges closer to his father's dangerous secrets.

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. Pocket Books, ISBN: 1416507191 (September, 2004), 342 p., $?.??.

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs (1994)

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After a fine New York Saturday spent over too many drinks with Police Captain Davy Mogaill, Detective Neil Hockaday was no further enlightened about his father, who had vanished during World War II. Mogaill's reluctance to divulge details was matched by that of Father Tim Kelly, who pressed a strange medallion into Hock's hand - without any explanation. On Sunday night, Hock and his beautiful leading lady, actress Ruby Flagg, were on a trans-Atlantic flight to Ireland: summoned to visit Hock's dying Uncle Liam, and perhaps to learn more about his own father. But hardly had they set foot on the land Hock had always known as "the other side" when the pull of memory became a whirlpool even stronger than ties of blood...

A hero of New York's elite S.C.U.M. patrol (Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan), Hock doesn't leave home without his badge or his instincts - but soon he's wishing for his gun. His traveler's welcome features front-row seats for a brutal murder, then hostile questioning by the Dublin police, followed soon after by news from New York of Father Tim's shocking death and Davy Mogaill's disappearance. Suspicious minds are now linking Hock to crimes on both sides of the water. And, at his Uncle Liam's house in Dun Laoghaire, surprises abound: Liam's opulent lifestyle, his cantankerous servants, his ruddy good health.

Hock has nowhere to hide in a country where a man in a Yankees cap is as rare as a stranger without a story. Yet he's determined to stay for Aidan Hockaday - the father who stepped into the mist before Hock was old enough to know him, leaving only a photo with a poem penned on the back, and a voice that speaks in Hock's ever more vivid dreams. Aided by a riddle-spouting cook, a tinker pickpocket, and the ever-resourceful Ruby Flagg, Hock edges closer to his father's shocking secrets. But only when he claims his history's harsh embrace, and raises a glass among the men in farmer's tweeds around the village tavern's tables, will the dogs of war leave him to grapple with the truth.

In this stunning novel of crime, deceit, and murder, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Adcock proves himself a true Irish storyteller. Drown All the Dogs, the third novel featuring New York Detective Neil Hockaday, confirms Adcock's reputation as one of our most imaginative crime writers.

Thomas Adcock: Drown All The Dogs. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671770411 (February, 1994), 341 p., $20.00.