Blood Money

Arlene Hunt

Blood Money sees the return of John Quigley, this time without his sidekick Sarah Kenny, who has disappeared to England. Why a private eye would not pursue his partner is never really fully explained except for opaque references to male pride, but the practice trundles on without Sarah’s help.

A mother desperate for John to get answers to her daughter Alison’s apparent suicide brings John on the trail of greedy money men and surgeons willing to carry out organ donations for the highest bidders. When one donor dies in eastern Europe her brother Pavel makes his way to Dublin to butcher those who left his sister to die. The unlikely romance between hardman Pavel and a busking teenager doesn’t really work, but tries to humanise the one-man hit squad.