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Distress Signals

Distress Signals
  • Author(s): Catherine Ryan Howard
  • Location(s): County Cork, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Did she leave, or was she taken? The day Adam Dunne’s girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that...

Siren

Siren
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Belfast, County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and mid 2000s

A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth in post-conflict Ireland, and a redemptive story of a woman claiming back her own identity. Róisín Burns has spent the past twenty years becoming someone else; her...

Songs of Love and War

Songs of Love and War
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1900

West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and...

Closed Casket

Closed Casket
  • Author(s): Sophie Hannah
  • Location(s): Clonakilty
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’. ‘What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’ Lady...

Stand by Me

Stand by Me
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): County Cork, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dominique (‘Domino’) lives a charmed existence as wife to one of Ireland’s most successful businesssmen, Brendan Delahaye – until the day Brendan disappears, leaving his company in disarray and Domino and their daughter alone to face the music. STAND...

The Night Swimmer

The Night Swimmer
  • Author(s): Matt Bondurant
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“The Night Swimmer” introduces us to an idealistic young couple from Vermont who take over the Nightjar, a moldering pub in a lonely corner of County Cork. Fred and Elly Bulkington fell in love as graduate students in English...

A Lesson in Malice

A Lesson in Malice
  • Author(s): Catherine Kirwan
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A visit to her old university takes an unexpected turn for solicitor Finn Fitzpatrick when she receives an exclusive invitation. She is far from high profile on the legal scene, so why is she on the guestlist for a...

Forever Home

Forever Home
  • Author(s): Graham Norton
  • Location(s): West Cork
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging. The new relationship sparks local speculation: what does a woman like...

Go Seek

Go Seek
  • Author(s): Michelle Teahan
  • Location(s): Cork City, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

YOU LOOKED AWAY FOR JUST A MINUTE. Your daughter is gone, and only you can find her. Because you know exactly who took her. And they’re making her pay for your past. To save one child, you must leave...

If Not Now

If Not Now
  • Author(s): Denyse Devlin
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just when she has resigned herself to being alone long-term, Marina Ffench, a widow in her forties, meets a man and falls in love all over again. A mid-life relationship, she thinks, will be straightforward – kids reared, careers...

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