Irish Mystery Fiction

It’s summer on Whisper Island. Ex-cop-turned-private-investigator Maggie Doyle is looking forward to sun, fun, and romance. Instead, she gets bills, an assault allegation, and a busted wrist. To add insult to injury, there’s a movie being filmed on the island, and Maggie’s diva sister has been cast in it—her debut role. While other residents clamor for parts as extras, Maggie wants nothing to do with the shoot. But when hotshot director Con Ryder asks Maggie to investigate a series of suspicious accidents on the movie set, she can’t afford to refuse.

Ex-cop-turned-PI Maggie Doyle is stuck chaperoning a group of bratty summer camp kids on an archaeological dig on Whisper Island. After a day of fart jokes, fidget spinners, and fistfights, Maggie's regretting volunteering - and then one of her feral charges unearths a skeleton. At first, it looks like a cold case, but the situation takes a sinister turn when a member of the excavation team winds up dead.

Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established - some say the best - funeral home in Dublin. One night, while driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending to do the right thing. As he bends over to help the man, he recognizes him. It's Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters in Dublin. And he's dead.

An ancient injustice, a haunting mystery, and a village’s secret past... In 1846, the Clancy brothers—James and John—were wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit and sent to the penal colonies of Australia, their lives forever altered. Now, 100 years later, Bridgie Ned, a brave young girl in Doona Village, stumbles upon a forgotten secret that could set the brothers’ spirits free. Guided by whispers from the otherworld, Bridgie and her gang must uncover the truth behind the Clancy brothers' conviction. But as the villagers begin to feel the stirrings of the past, ...

Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they'd seen the last of each other 30 years ago. Half a lifetime has passed, and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite—to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the future—they all have their own reasons to agree. As they take the ferry from Northern Ireland to Scotland, the past is brought into terrible focus—some things are impossible to leave behind.

The body of a young woman is found by a river outside Belfast and Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride makes a heart-wrenching discovery at the scene, a discovery he chooses to hide even though it could cost him the investigation—and his career. The victim was a loner but well-liked. Why would someone want to harm her? And is her murder connected to a rapist who's stalking the local pubs? As Ryan untangles a web of deception and lies, his suspects die one by one, leading him to a dangerous family secret and a murderer who will stop at nothing to keep it.

Seven years after a financial crisis nearly topples America, traders chafe at government regulations on Wall Street, racial tensions are rising, and corrupt financiers make backdoor deals with politicians.... 1799 was a hell of a year. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to prove his father's innocence, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost.

After returning from her father-in-law’s funeral in Florida, Lucy can almost hear the death knell of her part-time reporter job the instant she meets new hire Rob Callahan. He’s young, ambitious, and positioning himself to become the Pennysaver’s next star reporter. Adding insult to injury, Lucy only gets assigned the local St. Patrick’s Day parade once Rob passes on the story. But before beer flows and bagpipes sound, Rob becomes suspected of destroying more than other people’s careers.

In 1846, Valentia McDowell is haunted by dreams of a mystical brooch her grandmother left in Ireland. When she makes the dangerous journey to Ireland, she’s devastated by illness and tragedy. The famine and poverty she encounters force her to reassess her priorities, and she embarks upon a campaign to improve the lives of those she meets.

A relaxing sailing trip on his day off becomes anything but for DSI Mick Hays when a body is found at sea. The coastguard pluck the corpse from the ocean with ease, but establishing the dead man's identity won't be straightforward. And when pathology indicates he was murdered, Hays' partner DI Maureen Lyons is put in charge of the investigation. Good forensics and a nose for trouble lead Lyons to a small hamlet in an isolated part of the coast. But the locals, who are running a smooth bootleg liquor operation, are none too forthcoming with information.

Susan has everything she ever wanted. A loving husband, an angelic daughter and the cottage of her dreams in County Cork. Her picture-perfect life seems too good to be true. And it is. At a housewarming party with their new neighbours, her daughter Amelia goes missing. As friends become suspects, Susan’s life spirals out of control. And when Amelia’s yellow cardigan is dredged from the lake, every parent’s worst nightmare suddenly seems horribly real. In the aftermath of Amelia’s disappearance Susan and her husband Paul are not themselves. Someone is hiding something.

Professor Vanessa Naylor has a questionable gift – musical warnings that pop into her mind ahead of significant events. When a homicide occurs on college premises, Vanessa’s unusual talent might be all that can keep her one step ahead of the killer… It’s the start of another term at Edwardston Music College. Vanessa and her colleagues are busy assessing their first-year students, among them a multi-instrumentalist prodigy, Remmy Dunford, who creates a stir on campus, but not as much as the disappearance and subsequent murder of one of the students. After Vanessa is first on the ...

What happens when your childhood nemesis turns out to be the love of your life? That’s only one of the dilemmas Sadie Rose Mayhew must face when she returns to her childhood home. Seeking a fresh start after her broken engagement, Sadie moves into the house she left behind as a teen. Neglected since the death of her grandmother, Sadie sets about putting the place back together just as surely as she’s repairing her life – the main problem at first being her next door neighbor. Sadie remembers Declan Murphy as the pesky little brother of her best friend Kathleen, the fly in the ointment...

In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns.

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While giving a lecture on Irish Mythology, Harvard professor, Dr. Rory Flaherty, meets Finn Issine. The meeting leaves him perplexed when Finn tears off a corner of the business card and hands it back to Rory saying the pieces will come back together in the future. The same week, he is contacted by Irish investigator Clarke who questions him on his relationship with Finn. This leads Rory on a journey through ancient history, hidden clues and a possible ancient alien connections.

When Detective Alana Mack arrives at Clonabee police station, in a small Irish seaside town on the outskirts of Dublin, she doesn't expect to find a distressed two-year-old girl sobbing on the floor. Abandoned in a local supermarket, the child tells them her name is Casey. All Alana and her team have to go on is a crumpled note begging for someone to look after the little girl. This mother doesn't want to be found.

Sean Francis Xavier Murphy, a retired Irish American detective, is urged back into service to solve a brutal murder on a New Hampshire Catholic college campus. The school, under the direction of Benedictine monks, reflects the panoply of issues dividing the Catholic people – including abortion, birth control, pedophilia, and homosexuality. Sean finds himself, to his surprise and chagrin, searching for his lost faith as he also looks to solve the crime.

Belfast, Northern Ireland: early spring 2017. Retired Chief Inspector Patrick Mullan is found brutally murdered in his bed. Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride and his partner Detective Sergeant Billy Lamont are called to his desolate country home to investigate. In their inquiry, they discover a man whose career with the police service of Northern Ireland was overshadowed by violence and corruption. Is the killer someone from Mullan's past, or his present? And who hated the man enough to kill him twice?

Bernie is in search of all the things he missed out on by leaving Florida when he was young. He’d been too young for a fishing license then and was too old to need one now; what had he done all his life? The Irish determination in his blood has him methodically correcting the error of his ways. He buys a boat, hires a guide, gets mixed up in another murder… Yes, you heard right, another murder. Is there anything worse than finding a boy? Maybe finding part of one... Does Bernie regret taking up freshwater fishing? What is it about the steamy-semi-tropical lakes of west-central-Florida ...