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Blackwatertown

Blackwatertown
  • Author(s): Paul Waters
  • Location(s): County Armagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother – even if the murderer is in the police. But a lot can...

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Cahirsiveen, County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When bright, beautiful Penny O’Dwyer disappears from Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, the local police scour the narrow streets and muddy hills, but find no leads. Jessie Boyle swore she’d never return to Ireland. But...

Dubliners

Dubliners
  • Author(s): James Joyce
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

James Joyce’s Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce’s first major work, written when...

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Little Rosie Blake has been taken. Since going missing from the hospital where she was being treated for cancer, Rosie’s distraught parents haven’t heard a word. And time is swiftly running out. They have to find her, and right...

Murder at the Races

Murder at the Races
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Irish detectives Maureen Lyons and Mick Hays face one of their hardest cases yet… When a successful bookmaker is robbed and killed during the annual Galway Races, the motive seems clear. But when the money turns up untouched, more...

On the First Day of Christmas

On the First Day of Christmas
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This Christmas, everything will change… When Liv Latimer says goodbye to her fellow nurses and finishes work for the holidays, she’s looking forward to a Christmas to remember with her boyfriend Eddie. But as she leaves the hospital, tragedy...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Murder Box

The Murder Box
  • Author(s): Olivia Kiernan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

At first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the game’s contents, she notices a striking resemblance between the...

The Pull of the Stars

The Pull of the Stars
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1918

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world...

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
  • Author(s): Helen Cullen
  • Location(s): Galway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1970s - 2015

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family gathers. Maeve is an actor, struggling with her most challenging role yet – as a mother to four children. Murtagh, her devoted husband, is a potter whose...

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