Dead Irish

Dismas Hardy, Book 1

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.

But when the news of Eddie Cochran's death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he was trying to escape - and forced to untangle a web of old secrets and raw passions, for the sake of Eddie's pregnant widow, Frannie, and for the others whose lives may still be at risk.

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©2007 John Lescroart (P)2007 Brilliance Audio

Predictable

How Lescroat can stretch a flimsy story into 12 hours is beyond me. Additionally, I knew the killer after 2 hours. Not a good effort by an excellent writer.

Slow slow ... argh I don't take it anymore!!

extremely slow to get to anything to do with the story. There are entire chapters of character description that have absolutely nothing to do with plot. I gave up due to boredom. There is not a single character that I could care about.

Unclear

I don't know why I found this so hard to follow and keep hooked into but I suspect it's the lack of focus on the main character. There is a great crime writer in there somewhere but this book was very average. The story flits around from so many perspectives it's hard to build a bond with the lead character.

I may give the author a second chance.

Oh well!

This book came highly recommended by an avid reader so I kept on going expecting it to grab me until it was too late and at this point I decided I would just go ahead and finish it. Oh well.
Cliff.

This book didn't cut it for me

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Start all over again.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Still working on that

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

I liked the narrator.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I didn’t care for the story line very much. Trying to believe the killer was who the author choose did not set well with me, nor did the motive for murder. Having said this, I can’t help but comment that this made the plot unbelievable & I think the author should have taken this book in a whole different direction. It just left me feeling down. The detectives & police parts were OK but that in & of itself did not hold the story together. And getting into the killers head I found useless. So there you have it.my opinion.

Rambling. boring terrible story

I know it was the first book in a rather long series but I found this a waste of time and energy trying to follow and stay focused. How did anyone give this a 5 star review?

Tedious

A thin plot that the writer pads by adding a lot of unnecessary narrative and dialogue. This book was so boring and tedious that I almost quit listening to it.

I didn't like it but...

Lescroart is an intelligent and sensitive man, this book shows it. I'm thinking that others might become interested in his characters and life view. I didn't. It was well read, no problems there and I'll look for David Colacci in the future. I just found the plot and characters flat. And the ending was tortuously predictable. Sorry, just can't recommend Dead Irish.