Thomas Kennedy has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 1★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Irish Detective.
The Irish Detective
Summary
You are in the capital city of Ireland. Like any city, there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems. Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, businessmen, politicians, and tailors, each with a unique problem. Each chapter is a short story, but characters remain and develop as the book progresses.
©2018 Thomas Kennedy (P)2018 Thomas Kennedy
Dark Drink and Conversation
Summary
Humour with some adult themes. All told through conversations in a bar in Dublin City, Ireland.
Meet Fitzer the Flasher, Kathy the Dominatrix, Crazy Mary, the Burglar and others including the Curate, the Green Man, the Barman, the Sergeant and the Teacher. In the snug of Mulligans Pub, sit yourself down, reach for a pint of dark porter, and relax. Listen, for behind the humor there are real compelling stories.
©2018 Thomas Kennedy (P)2018 Thomas Kennedy
The Dublin Fosterling
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This novel is an engaging, witty blend of comic fantasy, Irish mythology, and romance and is a taut modern-day thriller located mainly in Dublin, Ireland.
Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into state care. Fiona doesn't know her absent father was the disgraced god of love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries; she worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond what is normal and can fight the bullies but is branded as violent and held in an institution for the criminally insane. She is released on her 18th birthday into a hostel in Dublin City, Ireland.
Joey, one of the bullies who made her past miserable, is now a Dublin gang member. They meet but agree to forget the past, and romance blossoms. But someone is killing his friends, former bullies who are now gang members, and Joey fears he is next.
Meanwhile, the Celtic goddess Danu of Otherworld has discovered Fiona's existence and wants her dead. The Drimnagh Witches are tasked to find her and Wizard Drowe is released from Otherworld prison tasked to kill her. Fiona survives his initial attempt to murder her and befriends him before entering a strange, mystical Otherworld beyond her current reality. She has to figure out how to survive in both worlds, on the tough streets of Dublin and in Otherworld.
©2018 Thomas Kennedy (P)2018 Thomas Kennedy
The Great Fury
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Oengus, the stolen son of the Celtic Gods, has come of age. He must serve his apprenticeship, and as a first step, he is made the God of Inconsequential Things. He must go to New York to recover a sword called The Great Fury. Oengus finds his task is shrouded in complexity. Morag the Witch is plotting to contaminate the Manhattan water system. Oengus is supported by the apprentice witch Maedbh, and they are targeted by Morag and her crew of the Greyman with the embrace of death, Dearg Due the Vampire, and Leanan Sidhe the seductress. Will Oengus recover the lost sword and save New York from a plague of rats?
©2018 Thomas Kennedy (P)2019 Thomas Kennedy
Debits and Credits
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In accountancy, every debit has a credit. Kevin McAteer, 23, living in London, is about to discover that real life is different. Just qualified as a chartered accountant after years of penury and study, he is flying high with a new bedsit and a new girlfriend Paula. An audit investigation in Maidenhead leads him into danger, with fraud, people smugglers, murderers, and money laundering. His co-worker, 20-year old Abagail, asks Kevin to ruin her reputation to enable her to avoid an arranged marriage within her religious community. Abagail's domineering father seeks lethal retribution for the perceived ruination of his daughter. Paula wants to know what is really going on. And a lethal Italian hit man is looking for a missing five million. Kevin has to stay afloat in his work and in his love life in this romantic thriller.
©2020 Thomas Kennedy (P)2020 Thomas Kennedy
The Tigerman
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Brendan, a quiet trainee accountant, naively agrees to carry a suitcase for Aftab, his boss, who has invited him to his wedding in India. He is plunged into the strange feudal world of a remote palace in rural India, together with, smuggled currency, man-eating tigers and arranged marriages. When he realises that Amaal and Benita are being forced into marriages, to frustrate this, he offers to marry them and take them to England where he can set them free to make their own lives. A group of 'honour killers' seek his death and that of the two women. He has to escape from India. And back in London the criminals from whom Aftab stole the money Brendan unknowingly took to India, are awaiting his return. A tale of romance and suspense based in rural India and cosmopolitan London.
©2020 Thomas Kennedy (P)2021 Thomas Kennedy
More Dark Drink and Conversation
Summary
Humour with some adult themes and satire. Step in for a pint and a chat. You'll meet Tracy the Australian actress, the Tramp and both Bruisers, senior and junior, together with Dwyer the bookie, the red Kelly, Rockette, the new recruit to the police force, the CIA agent called the Seeker, and many more.... When the European Union Commissioner for Cultural Harmonisation is kidnapped, the local horse betting syndicate of the Teacher, the Barman, the Sergeant, and the Parish Priest are drawn into the mesh of International Intelligence. And there is the scent of a horse racing scam, and they are in the loop.
©2018 Thomas Kennedy (P)2019 Thomas Kennedy