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One by One in the Darkness

One by One in the Darkness
  • Author(s): Deidre Madden
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and...

Paperboy

Paperboy
  • Author(s): Tony Macaulay
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1970s / 2000s

It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he’s got a new job. He’s going to be a paperboy....

Reading in the Dark

Reading in the Dark
  • Author(s): Seamus Deane
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense...

Shots Fired

Shots Fired
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Suspenseful and exciting! A specialist murder team track a deadly weapon. When a ballistics report shows that a gun used in a Glasgow shooting is the same as the one used in a London murder three years previously, DI...

That Much She Knew

That Much She Knew
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder, a missing colleague, and a pack of lies… When DCI Gawn Girvin is called to a murder scene, she is shocked to find the victim was known to her. Harriet Hughes was a close friend of Jenny...

The Benefactors

The Benefactors
  • Author(s): Wendy Erskine
  • Location(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the prize-winning author of Dance Move and Sweet Home, this is an astounding novel about intimate histories, class and money – and what being a parent means. Meet Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh: three very different women from Belfast,...

The Cold Cold Ground

The Cold Cold Ground
  • Author(s): Adrian McKinty
  • Location(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1981

Two dead. One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement. The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely...

The Ghost Factory

The Ghost Factory
  • Author(s): Jenny McCartney
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to...

The Giant’s Causeway Murders

The Giant’s Causeway Murders
  • Author(s): Robert McCracken
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Easy money has a bitter price for an unusual crime-solving duo Father and daughter private investigator team Sidney and Ursula Valentine are bored out of their wits surveying potholes in Belfast when they land a job from a woman...

The Hunger Within

The Hunger Within
  • Author(s): J M Hewitt
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1981

Northern Ireland, 1981 The Troubles are tearing apart the country. Neighbour turns on neighbour as the Catholic/Protestant divide rages on. In Maze Prison, a group of men start a hunger strike, wanting to be recognised as political prisoners. On...

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