Requiems for the Departed: Irish Crime, Irish Myths; Irish Times Review

From The Irish Times  'A new crime book based on Irish myths and legends shows that the two genres are natural bedfellows, writes DECLAN BURKE 

STAR-CROSSED lovers on the lam. It could be Red and Mumsie in Geoffrey Homes’ Build My Gallows High; Doc and Carol in Jim Thompson’s The Getaway , maybe Bowie and Keechie in Edward Anderson’s Thieves Like Us, or any number of classic noir tales.But Diarmuid and Grainne? Requiems for the Departed: Irish Crime, Irish Myths is a compilation of contemporary short crime stories based on Irish myths and legends.“There are many parallels between contemporary crime tales and Irish mythology,” says Gerard Brennan, who is co-editor of the collection, along with Mike Stone.'

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