The Guards by Ken Bruen

It was a good and long weekend that started on Thursday night. Thanks, friends! You all fed me well (Great Seas, my first trip to the famous Pita Inn, Feed, backyard grilling, a ridiculously large butter waffle ala mode and on and on). I’m stuffed. And I also took advantage of being able to sleep in late by staying up one night to finish Ken Bruen’s "The Guards". I don’t read mysteries much any more but I really liked it. He does a whole noire private detective thing set in Ireland and I thought he got away with it pretty well without coming off gimmicky. Staying up late to finish a book has to be one of the greatest pleasures in life, right behind shooting automatic weapons in the desert outside of Las Vegas naked.