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Harry’s Game

Harry’s Game
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in...

Herself Alone in Orange Rain

Herself Alone in Orange Rain
  • Author(s): Tracey Iceton
  • Location(s): Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Kaylynne Ryan is a promising art student, used to fighting for her place in a world of men, but when a forgotten friend turns up she realises there is more than her own freedom at stake. Learning the truth...

Kala

Kala
  • Author(s): Colin Walsh
  • Location(s): Kinlough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They—Helen, Joe and Mush—were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of...

Killing the Vibe

Killing the Vibe
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The discovery of a man’s corpse creates public outcry and leads to divisions within the force. Belfast police are totally in the dark as to who the victim is, although strange incisions on his back suggest a personally motivated...

Lasting Influence

Lasting Influence
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A kidnap, a murder, and a very tricky situation for a tough female detective… Detective Chief Inspector Gawn Girvin is called back from extended leave when a social media influencer couple goes missing on the Northern Ireland coast. One...

LETHAL DOSE

LETHAL DOSE
  • Author(s): Robert McCracken
  • Location(s): Belfast, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Out of her depth, a young detective must evade a fatal jab A journalist is found brutally murdered and buried upside down on Crosby beach. Terry Lawler had exposed the secrets of powerful people and apparently got his comeuppance....

Milkman

Milkman
  • Author(s): Anna Burns
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980's

Milkman is extraordinary. I’ve been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It’s frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.’ – Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies In this unnamed city, to be...

Murder on the Table

Murder on the Table
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sudden death turns a charity bash into chaos When DCI Gawn Girvin is invited to attend a gala dinner for Belfast’s great and good, little does she know it will mark the beginning of a new multiple murder...

Murder Sky High

Murder Sky High
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

After a plane passenger fails to reach his destination alive, DCI Gawn Girvin must once again chase a dragon. When pathology reports that a passenger found dead on arrival on a flight from Amsterdam to Belfast passed due to...

Northern Spy

Northern Spy
  • Author(s): Flynn Berry
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th / 21st Century

A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another IRA raid comes on the air: as the anchor requests the public’s help in locating those responsible for this...

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