Irish Detective Mysteries

Young Michael, an illegal immigrant escaping the troubles in Northern Ireland is strong and fearless and clever, just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month.

July 8, 1921. Ireland. A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin. November 22, 2015. United Kingdom. Former police detective Jayne Sinclair, now working as a genealogical investigator, receives a phone call from an adopted American billionaire asking her to discover the identity of his real father. How are the two events linked? Jayne Sinclair has only three clues to help her: a photocopied birth certificate, a stolen book, and an old photograph.

Siobhán O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns up dead in a carnival dunk tank of hot cocoa. Now instead of hunting down holiday gifts, she's pursuing a heartless killer. Seems the dead Santa was no angel either, stealing neighborhood dogs to guide his sleigh. But was it his holiday antics - or worse - that led to his death by chocolate?

87% 3/4/5 stars on Amazon! Detective Inspector Dermot O'Hara enjoys life as a policeman in the small Irish coastal town of Kenmare where his greatest challenges are lost library tickets and how to find more time to fish. This peaceful idyll is disrupted when death comes to town. And not just any death... O'Hara's career is on the line after the corpse of a US Senator is found on a remote hillside. O'Hara discovers that the Senator, searching for his Irish roots, has uncovered an old, still burning hatred from the time of the Great Famine. Dermot needs all the help he can get to solve the ...

BIRDS OF A FEATHER, KILL TOGETHER A smuggling operation, orchestrated by paramilitary groups representing both religious factions, takes a fatal turn when a local farmer loses his life, and journalist Jock McDevitt is left injured from a gunshot. This incident hits close to home for Ian Wilson, the leader of the Belfast Murder Squad, intensifying his determination to apprehend the perpetrators. As the Belfast Murder Squad delves into the investigation, they uncover a web of criminal conspiracies that transcend old rivalries, uniting former foes from opposite sides of the sectarian divide. ...

In the gripping crime novel, "The Druid's Dagger," the tranquil beauty of the Aran Islands is shattered by a chilling murder that reeks of ancient rituals. DS Fiona Madden and detective Garda Sean Tracy are dispatched to this remote and haunting landscape, where a gruesome discovery awaits them. At the heart of the investigation lies a lifeless body, a macabre tableau set within the Neolithic fort of Dun Aengus. The victim's chest is impaled by a dagger, evoking eerie echoes of ancient rites. Madden and Tracy, seasoned investigators, find themselves in a perplexing and unsettling realm ...

Jim Booker was once the best at finding the missing in Los Angeles—until his own body betrayed him. Now he's dying of AIDS-related cancer, propped up by painkillers and the loyalty of Numi, the only friend who hasn’t abandoned him. But when his former best friend comes begging for help to find his missing wife, Booker can't say no. Not just because the woman is Olivia—the woman Booker once loved—but because finding the lost is the one thing that still gives his ruined life meaning. When Olivia turns up dead, her throat slashed, Booker refuses to let the disease killing him stop him ...

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn’t be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention.

“Connemara Girl" is a gripping tale that reintroduces DS Fiona Madden to her hometown of Galway, where she's found contentment with her partner, Ashling McGoldrick. However, tranquility eludes Fiona when a teenager vanishes without a trace, and an unexpected visitor claims to be the son she once gave up for adoption. Haunted by her past reputation in the village, Fiona remains resolute, fortified by a wall of inner strength. A martial arts expert, she swiftly confronts a local troublemaker, turning a viral video into a double-edged sword of admiration and resentment. Her actions draw the ...

Boston expat Maura Donovan has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan’s. But now, her mother has returned - and she’s brought Maura’s half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura’s door, asking about a mystical fairy fort that happens to be located on Maura’s piece of land. Then one of the students disappears after a day of scoping out the fort, and Maura uncovers a decades-old corpse.

Isobel McKenzie is an experienced and intuitive psychotherapist who is on sabbatical while recovering from illness. Reluctantly she goes to London to help out an old friend, solicitor Peter Wright, who is uneasy about the partisan nature of a proposed divorce settlement. He asks her to meet the couple, Thomas and Anne Banks, to assess the situation. Is Anne, a recovering alcoholic, possibly being coerced into signing an agreement which not only gives Thomas control of all their assets but also sole custody of their son? Isobel immediately senses that something is awry and, despite herself, ...

A triple homicide in a restaurant—just another workday for Detective Mario DeLuca. Join Detective Mario DeLuca and his partner, Howard Blitz, as they go deep into the streets of New Orleans to solve a triple homicide in one of the city's restaurants. Mario battles with his own demons while investigating the crime and trying to comprehend the tragedy. He also takes a stroll down memory lane to visit an old neighbor from his youth, discovering secrets held by Irish Bayou. At the same time, he is comforted by both Howard's and his own tenacity and kindness. The two detectives are excellent ...

Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer, a knight of the realm, disappears while travelling from her husband’s manor to Bampton. She and her maid are traveling in an enclosed wagon, while her husband, his grooms, and a squire are mounted. When the party arrives at Bampton Castle neither the lady nor her maid are within the enclosed wagon: They have simply vanished. As the disappearance may have happened while the travelers were on Lord Gilbert’s lands, his surgeon and bailiff, Hugh de Singleton, is assigned to discover what has happened to the lady. Has she been taken or has she fled?

In the picturesque Irish village of Cloncastle, Sinead Long returns home after years in America to find that some secrets grow best in familiar soil. When she discovers her husband's affair with her old school rival Joan Brady, it seems like a simple case of infidelity - until Joan is found dead in her kitchen, and Sinead becomes the prime suspect. As whispers of the scandal and revenge ripple through the village, Sinead finds herself at the centre of the investigation. Determined to clear her name, Sinead must untangle a web of lies, hidden motives, and secrets that many hoped would remain...

You are in the capital city of Ireland. Like any city, there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems. Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, business men, politicians, and tailors each with a unique problem.

In a town full of liars, who can you trust? When Detective Finnegan Beck is demoted from his high-powered job in Dublin and relocated in disgrace to the small Irish town of Cross Beg, he predicts boredom will be his biggest threat. But then a beautiful local teenage girl is found strangled in the cold, dark woods a mile from town. The prime suspect is the seemingly gentle drifter who found Tanya’s body. Beck seems to be the only person who can’t escape the feeling that Tanya wasn’t killed at random.

A wealthy couple is found brutally murdered. Their young son is missing. And one detective is about to be dragged back into a past he thought he'd buried. Detective Sergeant Conal Brophy is struggling to stay afloat—personally and professionally. When a high-profile double murder shakes the quiet Irish town of Woodstown, Brophy is handed the case that could either redeem his career—or destroy it. But nothing about the crime scene adds up. No witnesses. No motive. And the missing boy, Sean, has vanished without a trace. As Brophy digs deeper, a familiar name from an old, unsolved case ...

Christmas on the Island (DI Liam O'Reilly mysteries Book 6) CHRISTMAS: The silly season. Or, the suicide season? A string of suicides on the island arouses Detective Liam O'Reilly's suspicions. He understands that the suicide rate tends to increase during the festive season, but the ways in which these people have chosen to end their lives doesn't feel right. As O'Reilly and his team dig deeper they soon learn there is much more to these apparent suicides than they initially thought and O'Reilly realises there is a seriously damaged mind on the loose. Dubbed the suicide killer by the press,...

In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays, 22-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest.

Moira, Deirdre and Nuala Gallagher, the three-sisters team of Gallagher Investigations, experience more encounters with troubled spirits needing their assistance before they can move on in the Afterlife. A grieving mother is reunited with the child who was taken from her. A hiker accosted by a predator gets retribution. A victim of institutionalized terror finds release. A woman haunted by the ghosts of her past finds peace, and two conspiring young men are set straight by their deceased mothers. Join the Gallagher girls for more adventures in Ireland and beyond.