A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy)

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Paul is left injured and bemused, and caught up in a series of events involving local gangsters, a kidnapped heiress, murder and police corruption. But perhaps she had some tiny shred of decency left because when she died, she remembered him in her will. As a man possessing ‘one of those faces’, Paul succeeds in doing his bit at the local hospice, visiting elderly patients and pretending to be their son, grandson, family friend, or whomever they mistake him for. I'll have completely forgotten this book by the middle of next week, but I had fun while I was reading it. A Man With One of Those Faces is the first book in Caimh McDonnell’s Dublin Trilogy, which melds fast-paced action with a distinctly Irish acerbic wit.

Although, in the end, this was just another crime drama with people being shot, stabbed, beaten up and strangled, the author's tone made it more fun getting there than in most books of this type. Paul is suddenly attacked and stabbed through the shoulder by the stage 4 cancer patient who ends up dying of a heart attack.

This is the beginning of a colossal misunderstanding which will put himself and Nurse Brigit's lives in danger. He attended University College Dublin, graduating with a degree in Electronic Engineering, and started his career assembling computer servers.

Either the action is too tense to allow for many laughs, or the comedy is so obvious that the story descends into slapstick, making it hard to care for characters or get too excited about the plot. As Paul looks like everyone and no-one, those he visits seem to think he’s a relative finally come to say hallo. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog.The author is a funny man by trade, Irish comedian trying his hand at a novel in a most auspicious manner. Not only that we are treated to Paul’s backstory from a life in care to his stint on the hurling squad under the watchful eye of Detective Sergeant Bunny McGarry to his Great-Aunt Fidelma who was now controlling his life from beyond the grave. Due to his generic facial characteristics, he manages to pretend to be whatever the feeble minded residents of an old people home think he is. Its not jus them either, there are a plethora of other characters which light the read along the way…. The Stranger Times series was nominated and shortlisted for The New Kid on the Block Award (Best New Crime Series) Dead Good Reader Award 2022.

There was nothing special about his face – just the opposite in fact – it was entirely ordinary, as was the rest of him. A debut written by an Irish comedian, it has a murderous plot surrounded by humorous and distinctive Irish dialogue, some slapstick comedy, and wonderful Irish characters. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.Paul, as the straight man, and Brigit, as the dizzy dame, form an entertaining duo, although I often felt guilty for laughing at their near death experiences. He’d never used that phrase before in his life and, even as it came out of his mouth, the little internal editor in the back of his brain looked up from his newspaper and sneered.

in the sense that we both have a body with two legs, two feet, two arms, two hands, and a head with two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth and hair. Paul Mulchrone lives a meagre, lonely existence, working part time in a hospice as a companion to elderly residents (a ‘granny whisperer’) - he’s not very brave, faints at the sight of blood and is a bit of a whinger. Nurse Brigit, who gets caught up with protagonist Paul at the beginning of the story and stays with him through the end. Her mam had often said that Brigit’s problem was she thought she was too good for an ordinary life, but she didn’t think that was fair. It all works like a charm until one night when one of his terminally ill patients decides to try to murder Paul.I am so way behind reviews and unfortunately I will not have a computer available for a few more days so I am writing this one from my phone.