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The Book Club Murders

The Book Club Murders
  • Author(s): Alan Gorevan
  • Location(s): Dun Laoghaire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt. Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be...

The Bookshop on the Quay

The Bookshop on the Quay
  • Author(s): Patricia Lynch
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphaned Shane Madden comes to Dublin looking for his Uncle Tim, and finds work at The Four Masters Bookshop.

The China Chapter

The China Chapter
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A man is found dead after a house fire. Detective Fiona Moore suspects foul play. It’s not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law enforcement or the traces of accelerant, so much as the bullet...

The City of Lies

The City of Lies
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Berlin, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland’s east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five...

The City of Shadows

The City of Shadows
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Dublin, Gdansk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1934

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014 ‘She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the big room at the end of...

The Commitments

The Commitments
  • Author(s): Roddy Doyle
  • Location(s): The Northside
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps...

The Dead of Jura

The Dead of Jura
  • Author(s): Allan Martin
  • Location(s): Isle of Jura, Brandenburg, Dublin, Frankfurt an der Oder
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Modern

(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...

The Flower Arrangement

The Flower Arrangement
  • Author(s): Ella Griffin
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Golden peonies bowing their heads beneath blue delphinium bells. Delicate pink anemones threaded between freckled green orchids. Soft apricot roses woven together with velvety purple irises. Every bouquet tells a story. And every story begins at Blossom & Grow,...

The Henna Wars

The Henna Wars
  • Author(s): Adiba Jaigirdar
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nishat and Flávia are rivals at school, but Nishat can’t help the secret crush burning in her heart – even though her parents disapprove of the fact she likes girls. Can she possibly find her happy ever after? A...

The House on Hawthorn Road

The House on Hawthorn Road
  • Author(s): Megan Wynne
  • Location(s): Dublin, London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1950, Present Day

Two centuries, two children, one house Beth didn’t want to move to Dublin – she misses her old life and her friends back in London. New home and new school is hard enough, but to make matters worse someone...

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