Turbulent Priests (Dan Starkey Book 3)
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Packed with Bateman's trademarket mixture of jokes, shocks and tenderness, Turbulent Priests is his best novel yet. Paperback , pages. Published July 3rd by HarperCollins first published December 6th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Turbulent Priests , please sign up.
Lists with This Book. Feb 08, Katrina rated it really liked it. This is probably my favourite Dan Starkey book so far.
Divorcing Jack was a brilliant satirical take on the Troubles and political progress since then, and his subsequent Wee Sweetie Mice and Men was as funny as Bateman can be, but the plot was just a tad too fantastical. Turbulent Priests stays true to Bateman's style of writing, but set in the more local Wrathlin Island and so Northern Irish pervades the entire book. Starkey arrives on said island with wife and baby in toe, to investigate the This is probably my favourite Dan Starkey book so far.
Starkey arrives on said island with wife and baby in toe, to investigate the acclaimed Second Coming of the Messiah, a six year old girl who actually rarely features.
The focus is instead the islanders, and the corrupting power that religion can create I highly recommend this book, that had me snorting out loud for the duration. Oct 19, Jayne Charles rated it really liked it. There was an exhilarating originality about this novel - an isolated community off the coast of Northern Ireland becomes convinced one of its number is the second coming of Christ.
Journalist Dan Starkey arrives to investigate. It becomes clear that this is one of a series of books featuring Starkey, and given that I've not encountered him before it was a bit like crashing a party halfway through, but it was one where I felt welcome, and everything the reader needs to know about what has gone be There was an exhilarating originality about this novel - an isolated community off the coast of Northern Ireland becomes convinced one of its number is the second coming of Christ.
It becomes clear that this is one of a series of books featuring Starkey, and given that I've not encountered him before it was a bit like crashing a party halfway through, but it was one where I felt welcome, and everything the reader needs to know about what has gone before is economically conveyed without disturbing the narrative. There's a lot of drinking despite the fact that the island is "dry" and a lot of wisecracking. The humour reminded me of my husband - frequently corny to an almost unbearable degree, but amongst it some really cracking humour that makes wading through the corn that bit less painful.
And you really have to applaud the one-liner at the end of chapter 20, whilst acknowledging the complexity of the scaffolding that had to be erected around it to permit it to be delivered. I was hoping the book might bring me a tiny bit closer to understanding Northern Ireland and the whole religious divide.
I was none the wiser, but that observation summed up in a nutshell everything about sectarianism that is baffling to outsiders. I enjoyed the first half more than the second - there was a lot of good personality-driven plot and a lot of good humour. From halfway on, though, something happened.
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It became like a screenplay in waiting. Guns and fisticuffs and overwrought near-death experiences took over. Despite some pretty graphic action, you knew everything was going to be broadly OK: There are surely plenty more wisecracks to come. Jul 28, Jim Bartlett rated it did not like it. My 4th Bateman novel and I love the laugh out loud Irish black humour dialogue with original highly exaggerated and absurd characters particularly the central character and storylines There is a fine balance in the writing of exaggerated characters into an exaggerated plot I find his writing curiously addictive , but I felt in this novel the story degenerated from the absurd and imaginative crime fiction into contrived rubbish.
Totally believable Couldn't put it down.
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Read it in two sessions. First Dan Starkey novel that I've read but Will probably read the lot now. Starkey receives a request from Mark Corkery, known as "The Horse Whisperer", to investigate racing entrepreneur Geordie McClean who is apparently not quite as clean as his name would suggest.
Starkey is back with his wife Patricia and feels he's gotten over the murder of his toddler son "Little Stevie" - however his wife disagrees and declares that an American road trip would do him good. When the opportunity to avenge Stevie's death presents itself, Starkey cannot refuse. A movie adaptation of the novel was planned in , with Steve Bendelack attached as director.
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Belfast Confidential surrounds Dan Starkey and his recent appointment as the editor of Belfast 's trendiest magazine, Belfast Confidential , described by Bateman as "a cross between Private Eye and Hello ". Starkey discovers that Mouse was working on a list of the 50 most powerful people in the area before his death and decides that those at the top are the most likely suspects.
He sets out to discover if this is indeed the case.
In Nine Inches , the four-year-old son of Jack Caramac, a shock jock radio broadcaster and old friend of Dan Starkey, is kidnapped for one hour and returned unharmed. Starkey, now a self-styled "upmarket private eye ", is hired to investigate the kidnapping and ascertain who might have been behind it — a significant task given the number of people offended by Caramac's illustration of the crime and corruption prevalent throughout Belfast.
Starkey's investigations lead him to the Miller brothers, officially the Chiefs of Staff for the Ulster Volunteer Force , although viewed by Starkey as merely a group of Shankill Road thugs intent on pedalling drugs across Belfast.
The Millers have been attempting to evict a widow named Jean Murray from her house and Starkey intervenes, hoping his knowledge of their drug operation would dissuade any repercussions. Starkey's interference leads to the Murray's house being burnt down with Jean still inside. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Oct 19, Jayne Charles rated it really liked it. Jul 28, Jim Bartlett rated it did not like it. The child in question turns out to be a girl called Christine, and the local population has become as defensive and generally crazy as the cast of The Crucible. Want to Read saving…. Turbulent Priests Dan Starkey 3 Author s:
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