I've been hoovering these books up as soon as they are released in audio format because I do love the narrator Morgan C Jones (I've mentioned that before...) but the problem that created was I got behind with reviews and then couldn't work out whether I should do that in publication order or chronological order, and then caught up and then let things lag again, and anyway, FORTUNATE SON, aka book 8 in publication order, chronological order 5 of the misnamed (we've been down this path already) Dublin (not a) Trilogy, has Bunny McGarry preparing for a nice holiday. Somewhere hot with cold drinks with little umbrellas. Which of course is something that a certain nun is having none of (bad pun intended).
Instead of his nice holiday, Bunny finds himself dispatched to not at all warm London on the hunt for a runaway teenager who doesn't know his mother hasn't got long to live. The search for Sean Malone begins with sod all to go on - a deadbeat dad that Sean was supposedly looking for, and a picture with the current heavyweight champion of the world - sends Bunny down some really dark rabbit holes (sorry - the bad puns are catching), in a city he doesn't know, doesn't like, and bloody well doesn't want to be in.
As is always the case with these books Bunny McGarry is part super human, part lunatic, and the search for Sean is something he's committed to, if only because of that certain nun's insistence and the link that she has to his now in hiding lady love. And if none of that makes any sense then you really need to read this series because frankly I'm not sure I could explain it, even if I could begin to explain the convoluted connections between the Dublin (not a) Trilogy, MCM Investigations and McGarry Stateside.
To cut to the chase, which is probably what I need to do with all reviews of this series now:
Manic
Hilarious
Really silly
Seriously good fun
Seriously engaging characters
Delightfully convoluted plots and interconnections
More Please
Fortunate Son
Bunny McGarry is back – and he’d really like a nice holiday. Somewhere with hot weather and cold drinks that come with little umbrellas for reasons he never understood. A certain nun has other ideas though and instead, he finds himself dispatched to London to find Sean Malone, a runaway teenager who doesn’t know his mother hasn’t got long left to live. The only leads Bunny has are a last-known address for the deadbeat dad Sean had gone in search of, and some letters the teenager had sent to his mum, one of which included a picture of him with the current heavyweight champion of the world. It quickly emerges that Sean is caught up in some very, nasty business and Bunny, out on his own and in a city he doesn’t know, or particularly like, is his only chance at survival.
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