A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy #1) by Caimh McDonnell

A light comedy action caper set in Dublin - excellent bedtime reading

A Man With One of Those Faces is a very Irish, very contemporary, Dublin comedy murder adventure rollick. The real strength is in the characters. Exaggerated but plausible, we have the soon-to-retire street-wise Detective Inspector, the half-gangster half-good-guy police operative, and a whole menagerie of absurdly and amusingly evil Irish gangsters, all busy chasing each other around Dublin, and getting aggressively and dangerously in each others faces with their just-decipherable-enough Irish street patois.

Our protagonist Paul is an innocent ne'er-do-well whose only known employment is "granny whisperer", which involves pretending to be the relative or grandchild of Alzheimer patients at the local nursing home. He's very convincing and they love him. But Paul soon becomes caught up with his new friend Brigit the nurse in an accidental entanglement with the very worst of the worst and must try to figure out if it is possible not to die before the end of the book.

I laughed a lot, and once I got to the halfway point there was no way to put it down until I finished late in the night. I am looking forward to the second book in this trilogy.

As it says on the back cover A Man With One of Those Faces would indeed make a great comedy action caper movie.