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Confessions

Confessions
  • Author(s): Catherine Airey
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago...

Country Girl

Country Girl
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

I thought of life’s many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter … Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication...

Dad’s Red Dress

Dad’s Red Dress
  • Author(s): L J Sedgwick
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2008

Jessie Keane is 13 and just wants to be normal. Trouble is, her kid sister, Laura (7) thinks she’s been abducted by the Virgin Mary; twice; once on a motorbike, her step-mum, Eva makes erotic feminist installations while Dad...

Dark Road Home

Dark Road Home
  • Author(s): Sheila Bugler
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a small town, it’s impossible to hide… Two decades after she left Ireland, Leah Ryan is back. She knows she won’t get a welcome reception in her hometown of Dungarry, but she’s finally ready to face up to...

Deadly Intent

Deadly Intent
  • Author(s): Anna Sweeney
  • Location(s): Beara Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Grim secrets are hidden away in the coves and inlet of the Beara Peninsula, Ireland. Nessa McDermott, a former journalist, and Patrick Latif, a married couple, move with their family to this beautiful area to run a B&B. But one...

Death at Ashford Castle

Death at Ashford Castle
  • Author(s): Martha Geaney
  • Location(s): County Mayo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

“Star O’Brien is a haunting voice for the dead, the missing, and the lost.” The second Irish cozy mystery, set in County Mayo, for the fiercely independent, inquisitive, hates to be disconnected from her cell phone, amateur sleuth Star...

Death at Whitewater Church (Inishowen Mysteries)

Death at Whitewater Church (Inishowen Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Andrea Carter
  • Location(s): Inishowen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death in Magnerstown

Death in Magnerstown
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

The peace of a sleepy Irish town is disturbed when the local judge is found dead in the courthouse. Having had friends in high places, police must act quick to find the killer. But the judge also had lots...

Death on Clare Island

Death on Clare Island
  • Author(s): Martha Geaney
  • Location(s): County Mayo, Clare Island
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Star O’Brien is a haunting voice for the dead, the missing, and the lost. Star O’Brien is a successful American information broker who can’t solve the mysteries of her own life. She comes to County Mayo, Ireland to settle...

December Girl

December Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Cassidy
  • Location(s): County Meath, County Louth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Molly Thomas is a feisty, independent soul, born on the Winter Solstice. At every stage of her life she has faced troubles. As a young woman her family are evicted from their home at Christmas. Molly swears vengeance on...

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