Irish Mystery

Dana's young life revolves around her martial arts, taught to her by her mother, her father's art gallery, and her girlfriend. Having witnessed her mother's brutal murder, Dana descends into the dark underworld of drug lords and murderers, relying on her martial art skills for revenge. The drug lords she chases quickly give Dana the nickname "Red Bitch" Dana assembles a small crew of confident, successful women and goes after the killers.

The theft of the Irish Crown Jewels is one of the most fascinating and mysterious crimes in Irish history. Dublin in 1907 was a city divided economically and politically. The Dublin Castle, the center of British power in Ireland, was getting ready for the imminent visit of King Edward VII. Days before the visit, the Irish Crown Jewels mysteriously went missing. In the ensuing chaos, suspicions are rife and theories proliferate. The police believe it to be an inside job. A Scotland Yard investigation leads to a web of political and sexual intrigue that comes dangerously close to the crown ...

Dr Terry O'Brien has recently arrived in Ireland from Scotland to take up a position as state pathologist. Soon after, a body is found in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Rachel Reece, host of the popular true crime podcast Ireland's Missing Women, has been brutally murdered. As Terry gathers evidence to help with the police investigation, she becomes convinced that they are following the wrong line of inquiry and begins her own research. She soon finds herself in the thick of cold cases of murdered Irish women, with questions mounting.

Scrapped Spring is in the air, but the ladies of the Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop hardly have time to stop and smell the roses. Not when famed Irish dancer Emily McGlashen is found murdered in her studio just after the St. Patrick's Day parade - and one of the Crop's own members is the prime suspect. Vera's dance studio may have suffered when Emily waltzed into town, but the croppers know she's not a vengeful murderer. Lucky for her, co-scrapbooker Annie is a freelance reporter eager to vindicate her friend. What she discovers is a puzzling labyrinth of secrets that only add question marks to Emily's murder.

A small town with dark secrets. A boy caught between two worlds. Christian lives hidden on an island off the coast of Skerries, Ireland—homeschooled, isolated, and bound by rules he doesn’t fully understand. His father, Martin, is a powerful vampire tasked with protecting the town’s ancient secret. Christian, however, is something different… something in between. When a chance encounter with a girl named Sinead draws him into the orbit of his peers, Christian longs for normal life. But beneath Skerries’ picturesque surface lies a web of control, corruption, and centuries-old pacts...

Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Eadulf and the warrior Aidan discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'. When a strange woman known as Brancheó appears in a raven-feather cloak foretelling of ancient gods returning to exact revenge upon the mortal world, she is quickly branded a suspect. But in their search for the killer, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf will soon discover a darker shadow looming over the fortress.

On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house, a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun, cutting it off from the mainland. When morning broke, Nessa Crowley's lifeless body lay in the garden, her last breath silenced by the music and the thunder. The killer couldn't have escaped Inisrun, but no-one was charged with the murder. The mystery that surrounded the death of Nessa remained hidden. But the islanders knew who to blame for the crime that changed them forever.

At approximately 16:00, this office received a telephonic communication that two journals were recovered near Johnson Village, Colorado, following incident [redacted]. Journal number one contains approximately 200 pages and is leather-bound. Source is a caucasian male: Jack Reynolds, automotive mechanic, 33 years of age. Journal number two contains approximately 200 pages and is hard-bound in red. Source is a caucasian female: Lisa James, doctor of medicine, 31 years of age.

It is 1813 in Northern Spain. The crew of a British warship is attempting to make contact with the local resistance fighters who are battling the French. They send a brave crewman, known as Cuba Tom, to try to make contact with the local chief of the Guerrillos, but he fails to return. So a young naval officer, Edgar Byrne, sets off to try to trace him. The trail leads him to a strange inn which is run by two very sinister old women...

During an unprecedented heatwave, the body of a young girl is found in a submerged suitcase in Loch Acorrymore on Achill Island. DS Lucy Golden is tasked with identifying her and returning her to her family. With the help of her team, they discover that the girl was a runaway, who had spent some time in a homeless shelter. She has been murdered and an investigation is launched. Despite some promising leads, Lucy's enquiries seem to be going nowhere until another the body with connections to the homeless shelter is discovered in what initially appears to be a suicide.

The opening story in this collection follows Vinny, Kevin, and a mourning family from Liverpool on a journey to Wales. What should be a simple trip turns into something much darker. A cross between Roddy Doyle and Ken Follett, this political storytelling meets you wherever you are on life’s journey, and stays with you.

When Mariana Rivas arrives from Spain to work as an au pair in the Dublin home of the Mac Converys, Garda Inspector Fionn Mac Convery tries to seduce her. In the course of avoiding Fionn, Mariana experiences the mean streets of Dublin city and meets some of the characters who, in his ambitious rise in the police force, have been damaged by him.

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE -- AND YOUR FRENEMIES CLOSER Successful attorney Molly Reid thought she had put the past behind her. But when the body of her flaky but lovable college roommate, Sarah, is discovered abandoned in a field, Molly is drawn back into the tangled incestuous world of Devereaux College. At Sarah’s wake, Molly confronts her ex-fiancé, the bitchy college friends who still treat Molly like the slutty wrong-side-of-the-tracks scholarship student she once was, and Sarah’s mother, who forces Molly to take Sarah’s rehab journals. As Molly sifts through Sarah’s scrawled ...

Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler and people finder - is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose.

A new look at dark fairytales. Akin to the Brothers Grimm, none of these storybook characters are innocent. Cinder Ellah forgets who earned her the crown and pays a hefty price. Kaede’s new love interest weighs heavily on his soul. Olivia won’t give up her firstborn without a fight. The old woman living in a shoe bites off more than she can chew. Lere planned revenge, but contracted love sickness instead. These five stories will have you on the edge of your seat craving a sequel. Stories by Deborah Brown, Jo Niederhoff, Victor Nandi, Jarrett Mazza, and Thea Watson.

A telepathic warning from the pilot enables flight attendant Susan Maxwell to survive a terrifying plane crash. In the wake of the disaster, she takes charge until the inevitable breakdown occurs and her mind is filled with the voices of other passengers. When she contacts her fellow survivors, she learns that they too have been hearing voices, and that a greater destiny awaits them. Seamus Quinn found the woman of his dreams when he rescued Susan and her friends, but her initial reaction left him with no hope of ever seeing her again—until she shows up on the dock asking to hire his boat...

Marketing assistant Cleona Mahoney survives a horrific plane crash only to discover that the buzzing sound she hears is not a concussion but the voices of people who died in the crash. When she meets Kevan MacFinnin, their mutual attraction is swift and powerful, despite the disfiguring scars he sustained in the terrorist bombing that killed his parents. In recent months, several of Kevan’s sheep have been sliced open and left on the hillside, the only clue being a mysterious symbol painted on the fleece. After her communion with Earth’s spirit reveals Cleona to be the Carrier of ...

It was only a kiss – or was it? 19-year-old Vanessa is a passionate and talented violinist, but she doesn’t have a clue about boys and matters of the heart. Her friend Lizzie thinks it’s time Vanessa experiences her first kiss, and a beach party at the imposing Augharourke Castle is the perfect opportunity. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger leads to the desired outcome, but Vanessa walks away from that kiss with a little more than she bargained for... Overture is the opening sequence to the In Time to the Music series of cosy mysteries with a supernatural twist.

Karen can’t go on pulling stick-ups forever, but Rossi is getting out of prison any day now and she needs the money to keep Anna out of his hands. This new guy she’s met, Ray, just might be able to help her out, but he wants out of the kidnap game now the Slavs are bunkering in. And then there's Frank, the discredited plastic surgeon who wants his ex-wife snatched - the ex-wife being Madge, who just happens to be Karen’s best friend. But can Karen and Ray trust each other enough to carry off one last caper? Or will love, as always, ruin everything? Praise for THE BIG O: “Imagine ...

A woman has been murdered and mutilated in her own home, with her liver cut out and a message left within it. Tasked with leading the case, DI Tudor Manx identifies several suspects, including the victim’s estranged husband. But all trails run cold. Then, another victim dies—and from the modus operandi. It seems that North Wales Police are dealing with a serial killer. But who would target the inhabitants of such a peaceful island?