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Blackwatertown

Blackwatertown
  • Author(s): Paul Waters
  • Location(s): County Armagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother – even if the murderer is in the police. But a lot can...

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Cahirsiveen, County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When bright, beautiful Penny O’Dwyer disappears from Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, the local police scour the narrow streets and muddy hills, but find no leads. Jessie Boyle swore she’d never return to Ireland. But...

Dubliners

Dubliners
  • Author(s): James Joyce
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

James Joyce’s Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce’s first major work, written when...

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Little Rosie Blake has been taken. Since going missing from the hospital where she was being treated for cancer, Rosie’s distraught parents haven’t heard a word. And time is swiftly running out. They have to find her, and right...

Murder at the Races

Murder at the Races
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Irish detectives Maureen Lyons and Mick Hays face one of their hardest cases yet… When a successful bookmaker is robbed and killed during the annual Galway Races, the motive seems clear. But when the money turns up untouched, more...

On the First Day of Christmas

On the First Day of Christmas
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This Christmas, everything will change… When Liv Latimer says goodbye to her fellow nurses and finishes work for the holidays, she’s looking forward to a Christmas to remember with her boyfriend Eddie. But as she leaves the hospital, tragedy...

Rory & Chloé: A Dublin Love Story

Rory & Chloé: A Dublin Love Story
  • Author(s): Amelia Doyle
  • Location(s): Dublin, London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chloé Amiya Kapoor and Rory McCarthy spent all their childhood summers with Chloé’s aunt Élodie and her wife Saoirse (Rory’s godmother) in beautiful Dublin. Chloé in Mumbai and Rory in London are both astonished when, almost a year after...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Coast Road

The Coast Road
  • Author(s): Alan Murrin
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette...

The Inheritance

The Inheritance
  • Author(s): Cauvery Madhavan
  • Location(s): Beara Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1986 / early 1600s

It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the stunning Beara Peninsula. When...

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