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The Deadwood Encore

The Deadwood Encore
  • Author(s): Kathleen Murray
  • Location(s): County Carlow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank Whelan is the seventh son of a seventh son, so by now should have inherited his father’s legendary healing power, but still hasn’t managed to graduate beyond small-time skin afflictions. He already feels adrift when his twin, Bernie,...

The Distant Shores

The Distant Shores
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together. Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of the famous Deverill family. She...

The Drowned

The Drowned
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke murder mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow. He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten. 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner...

The Empty Safe Mystery

The Empty Safe Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Wexford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The manager of a building society is found dead in her flat above the premises in the Irish county town of Wexford. DI Vikki Kirkby investigates. Not only has the woman been murdered, the safe has been opened and...

The Farmyard Mystery

The Farmyard Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A man and his son are found dead in the small hours in front of their remote farmhouse. They have been stabbed. DI Martin O’Shea and DS Deirdre Maguire attend, but the motive for the killings elude them. Why...

The Ferry Port Mystery

The Ferry Port Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Wexford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): contemporary

A young detective ruffles a few feathers in a south coast Irish town When Detective Inspector Vikki Kirkby took the fall for a senior colleague’s mistake, she didn’t anticipate being sent from Dublin to the rural backwater of Wexford...

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 Fly On The Wheel

The Fly On The Wheel
  • Author(s): Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Location(s): County Waterford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

When Stephen Carey, a married lawyer, tries to break his brother’s engagement to Isabel Costello, he unexpectedly falls in love with her himself

The Galway Homicides

The Galway Homicides
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

MURDER AT THE HOLIDAY HOME A local businessman is questioned when a young woman is found dead in his property. His caginess makes him a prime suspect in what turns into a murder inquiry. But with no clear motive...

The Getaway

The Getaway
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Careful what you wish for… Three women routinely take the same coastal train service to the city. All they have in common is that each is desperate for an escape. Newly-wed Dara would give anything to go back in...

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