Declan Hughes (born 1963) is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He has been Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Irish Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written a series of crime novels featuring the Irish-American detective Ed Loy. The name "Loy" is a homage to the character Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon: a loy is a traditional Irish spade.

His most recent novel is All the Things You Are (2014), which follows City of Lost Girls (2010),^[1] All the Dead Voices (2009),^[2] The Price of Blood (2008),^[3] The Dying Breed,^[4] The Color of Blood (2007)^[5] and The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006).^[6]

His plays include Shiver (2003),^[7] Digging for Fire and New Morning.^[8]

Hughes lives in Dublin with his wife and two daughters.^[9]

Novels

• All The Things You Are (2014)
• City of Lost Girls (2010) ISBN 978-0-06-168990-1
• All the Dead Voices (2009) ISBN 978-0-06-168988-8
• Dying Breed (2008) - US title: The Price of Blood ISBN 978-0-06-082551-5
• The Colour of Blood (2007) ISBN 978-0-06-082549-2
• The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006)ISBN 9780060825461

Plays

• I Can't Get Started (1990)
• Digging for Fire (1991)
• New Morning (1992)
• Hallowe'en Night (1992)
• Love and a Bottle (1992)
• Twenty Grand (1998)
• Shiver (2003) ISBN 978-0-413-77361-6
• The Last Summer (2012)