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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...

Mother Mother

Mother Mother
  • Author(s): Annie Macmanus
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ‘A brilliant book…that explores the brutal legacy of addiction and the consequences of a deep grief left to stagnate’ SARA COX ‘A work of gilded melancholy that is going to take everyone by...

The Good Son

The Good Son
  • Author(s): Paul McVeigh
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn’t a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him ‘gay’. It doesn’t help that his best...

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...

Undertow (Inspector Celcius Daly)

Undertow (Inspector Celcius Daly)
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A policeman’s suicide leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption. Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order have ground to a halt, and whose residents, ruined...

Border Angels

Border Angels
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): County Armagh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A charred corpse and a set of footprints in the snow lead Celcius Daly into the twilight world of people trafficking. Inspector Celcius Daly is hunting for a missing woman, Lena Novak, who mysteriously disappeared one winter’s night along...

Jump Derry

Jump Derry
  • Author(s): Christine Donovan
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Easter 2005, and Irish dancing champion Janie can win the feis but has no idea how to have a boyfriend. And when her first one, Martin, is a parkour freerunner, she can’t keep up as he jumps and flips...

Orchid Blue

Orchid Blue
  • Author(s): Eoin McNamee
  • Location(s): Newry
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1960s

The plot focuses on the real life murder of Pearl Gamble near Newry in 1961 and the subsequent arrest, trial and execution of Robert McGladdery for her murder – the last man hanged in Northern Ireland. Forensic investigation, was...

The First Time I Said Goodbye

The First Time I Said Goodbye
  • Author(s): Claire Allan
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1959 and 2010

Would you hold on tighter if you knew you were saying goodbye forever? In 1959, factory girl Stella Hegarty finds herself falling unexpectedly for the charms of a handsome US marine based in Derry.Caught up in a whirlwind of...

The House of Ashes

The House of Ashes
  • Author(s): Stuart Neville
  • Location(s): Belfast, County Antrim
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 60 years

For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning with her husband Damien. Then came the knock on the door. Elderly Mary Jackson can’t understand why Sara and...

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