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Providence Rag (Liam Mulligan)

par Bruce DeSilva

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"Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every priest and prostitute, every cop and street thug. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Inspired by a true story, Providence Rag finds Mulligan, his pal Mason, and the newspaper they both work for at an ethical crossroad. The youngest serial killer in history butchered five of his neighbors before he was old enough to drive. When he was caught eighteen years ago, Rhode Island's antiquated criminal statutes--never intended for someone like him--required that all juveniles, no matter their crimes, be released at age twenty-one. The killer is still behind bars, serving time for crimes supposedly committed on the inside. That these charges were fabricated is an open secret; but nearly everyone is fine with it--if the monster ever gets out more people will surely die. But Mason is not fine with it. If officials can get away with framing this killer they could do it to anybody. As Mason sets out to prove officials are perverting the justice system, Mulligan searches frantically for some legal way to keep the monster behind bars. The dueling investigations pit the friends against each other in a high-stakes race against time--and snares them in an ethical dilemma that has no right answer"--… (plus d'informations)
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This is one of the better books I have read lately. I have enjoyed the first two books in this series but this one hit another level. It presents a realistic and complex dilemma which I will not detail here (no spoilers) and treats it with respect and insight. I found myself running through different emotion after different emotion as I read the book. I can't wait for the next book from Mr. DiSilva. ( )
  MarkMad | Jul 14, 2021 |
Jeff Woodman’s narration was good although sometimes his women’s voices weren’t believable. I thought his other accents and voices of men were well done. I have liked his narration of other books so I will listen to him again.

The book itself was just ok it was a kind of slow book, but it does have a pretty good moral/ethical dilemma. A man who killed many women including children with no remorse, however, he was a teen when these crimes were committed, and now he will be released from prison when he is 21 because that is the law. Is it ok for the system to frame him for crimes just to keep him in jail? Should you look the other way if you find out the truth? This dilemma was interesting but the story itself is extremely graphic and I felt like the F word was said a little too much to sound natural it felt like the author just threw it in as exposition.

This was my first book by this author and honestly I probably wouldn’t read this author again.

2 ½ Stars ( )
  susiesharp | Apr 30, 2015 |
Providence Rag: a Liam Mulligan Novel. Bruce DeSilva. 2014. In the third novel in this series Mulligan, the old timey investigative reporter is working again is young colleague, Mason. A young serial killer who was 13 when he began his killing spree is due to be released from prison because of a glitz in the law. Mason agrees with Mulligan that the killer should not be released, but Mason believes the murder’s rights were violated when prison officers planted drugs in his cell and falsely accused him of attacking guards so they did not have to release him. Like the other Mulligan novels we get a vivid picture of the current dying state of journalism and modern newspapers which I find fascinating as sad as I love newspapers. DeSilva makes no secret of his political leanings in his snide comments about various commentators and presidential candidates ( )
  judithrs | Apr 27, 2015 |
A reporter for the Providence Dispatch is working on a story of a serial teenage black boy who brutally stabs , slashes and murders blonde women and girls that goes back several years. Because of antiquated laws on the books, he’s about to be released from prison when he turns 21, but just before his parole hearing a guard is assaulted. The reporter, Liam, works his contacts at the police, prison, state attorney’s office and former nun, and state attorney now governor while mentoring a young reporter who happens to be the son of the paper’s owner even while the newspaper is failing. ( )
  Kathy89 | Jun 14, 2014 |
Liam Mulligan, investigative reporter for The Providence Dispatch newspaper has come a long way since June 1992. Back then he was a young reporter working the sports beat who, by the luck of the draw and the fact that no one else was available, was forced into helping cover from the start one of the worst murder cases in the history of Rhode Island. A case that ultimately resulted in the very justified conviction of a killer who is definitively going to kill again if he ever gets out.

In the spring of 2012 that release is looking more and more likely. Not only is the killer going to get out, Mulligan probably will see that happen very soon as well as the death of his employer, The Providence Dispatch. Newspapers are a dying industry thanks to a population that either reads online or doesn't read at all. Mulligan knows the end is near every time he walks into the nearly empty newsroom and considers all the empty workstations, but looking for a new job isn't a high priority right now. Mulligan instead is focused on the case and the huge ethical dilemma it has created. It seems increasingly clear that prison officials were fabricating charges to keep the killer behind bars beyond his original sentence because the laws passed by the legislature were never ever designed to handle this unique situation. If prison officials really could make up charges and did so the obvious implication is that they could do it again with somebody else. Where does the public’s all-encompassing right to know about corruption and other matters fit into this situation? Beyond the thorny issue of what they did, if it did happen and Mulligan and possibly other reporters write about it, all heck is going to break loose with the most likely result in a killer being released to kill again. A killer who, no doubt, is far smarter about how to do what he wants to do without getting caught than when he went in all those years ago.

Inspired by two famous Rhode Island murder cases, Providence Rag: A Liam Mulligan Novel is the third book in the very good Liam Mulligan series. While Mulligan is getting older and maybe wiser---through that is questionable--- he is certainly more and more aware of the fact that he is the last of his breed in a dying industry. The obvious question as to who is going to expose corrupt politicians and flawed government actions when newspapers are gone is one that comes up again here as well as the ethics in reporting all that one knows about a situation.

This latest in the series is another good one from author Bruce DeSilva. Shifting in time from various dates in 1989 to 2012 the complicated read features further development of many characters as well as an illustrative history of what is being lost as the newspaper industry dies before our eyes. The world has changed a lot in those years and readers are reminded of those changes as the book works its way through and increasingly suspenseful situation on various fronts. Based on real life events with names and other details fictionalized Providence Rag: A Liam Mulligan novel, like the preceding two books Rogue Island and Cliff Walk, is absolutely well worth your time.


Providence Rag: A Liam Mulligan Novel
Bruce DeSilva
http://www.brucedesilva.com
Forge (A Tom Doherty Associates Book)
http://www.tor-forge.com
March 2014
ISBN #978-0-7653-7429-5
Hardback (also available in e-book)
304 Pages
$25.99

ARC was provided by the author for my use in an objective review.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2014 ( )
  kevinrtipple | May 21, 2014 |
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"Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every priest and prostitute, every cop and street thug. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Inspired by a true story, Providence Rag finds Mulligan, his pal Mason, and the newspaper they both work for at an ethical crossroad. The youngest serial killer in history butchered five of his neighbors before he was old enough to drive. When he was caught eighteen years ago, Rhode Island's antiquated criminal statutes--never intended for someone like him--required that all juveniles, no matter their crimes, be released at age twenty-one. The killer is still behind bars, serving time for crimes supposedly committed on the inside. That these charges were fabricated is an open secret; but nearly everyone is fine with it--if the monster ever gets out more people will surely die. But Mason is not fine with it. If officials can get away with framing this killer they could do it to anybody. As Mason sets out to prove officials are perverting the justice system, Mulligan searches frantically for some legal way to keep the monster behind bars. The dueling investigations pit the friends against each other in a high-stakes race against time--and snares them in an ethical dilemma that has no right answer"--

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