The Bloomsday Dead is set in Ireland on Bloomsday, June 16. Michael Forsythe, the protagonist is back, and is asked by Bridget Callaghan to find her kidnapped daughter. Forsythe was the main character in two other McKinty books, Dead I May Well Be and The Dead Yard.
Like Ulysses, this is a novel set on one day (although Ulysses lacks the body count of The Bloomsday Dead). Bridget is his Molly/Penelope and Michael is struggling to find home and end his search.
The Bloomsday Dead conforms to the thriller format, but it the writing that is most thrilling in these books. There were passages where Michael is alone thinking about his past, his future and the loneliness of the landscape that are mythic in quality. It is strange, for me, to find these books that are so violent and to be so poetic as well.
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