Irish Mystery

Hercule Poirot’s tranquil afternoon is ruined when an angry woman accosts him outside his front door. She threatens to report the famous detective to Scotland Yard for falsely accusing her of murder. Seeking sanctuary inside, Poirot is startled to find that he has a visitor – another stranger claiming to have received a letter from Poirot accusing him of killing the same man.

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.

IAN WILSON IS BACK Ian Wilson believed he had left the PSNI behind, but destiny had different plans for him. Persuaded to return, he finds himself at the helm of a murder squad burdened with added responsibilities. The enigmatic disappearance of gang boss Sammy Rice still haunts the city, and the integration of new team members adds an extra layer of complexity to his already challenging role. Then, a revelation emerges regarding the hidden burial site of one of the tragic 'disappeared.' The exhumation of the body and the ensuing investigation threaten to unveil one of Ulster's most ...

Lured by her aunt’s promise of a restful Irish vacation, Maggie agrees to help out at the Movie Theater Café in exchange for bed and board. Things are looking up - until the most hated woman on Whisper Island is poisoned at the café. With her aunt as the prime suspect, Maggie and her rock-hard muffins are hurled into the murder investigation.

Devastated by a broken engagement, Stella Jackson leaves her old life behind for a new start in rural Scotland. But when she arrives in the remote coastal village of Arisaig, nothing is what she expected. At the edge of Arisaig sits Munro House; grand, imposing and said to be cursed by a string of tragic deaths. No less intriguing is its eccentric and handsome young owner, Jamie Munro, who hires Stella as his assistant while he pursues a seemingly impossible aim.

Sparkle McCavity, young drag queen and employee of Miss Merkin, is missing, presumed kidnapped or even worse. Naturally, Merkin turns to reluctant sleuth and friend to the community Fi for help, but clues and suspects are worryingly thin on the ground—and the drag king Stan the Man is proving somewhat distracting. When Merkin’s niece is then found murdered, spiked on a light pole in nightclub TRASH, it becomes clear that Fi’s friends are in danger. Again.

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...

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.

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.

AMIDST THE SILENCE, A STORM BREWS In a desolate region just south of the border that divides Northern Ireland and the Republic, a tragic event unfolds as a young man falls victim to a fatal beating. The incident sends ripples of unease throughout Belfast, with Detective Superintendent Ian Wilson acutely attuned to the palpable tension gripping the population. The specter of renewed violence looms large, fueled by the looming prospect of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. As Wilson and his Garda counterpart, Duane, embark on the pursuit of justice in the wake of the young ...

Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was taught to be a thief and beggar on the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn't know her real name or where she came from.Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin "brothers" have recently left New Orleans and moved to the bayou. The twins are rarely there, but Maddie has come to love the swamp. She has learned to fish and trap and sell pelts at the local mercantile.

When former San Francisco cop Maggie Doyle extends her stay in Ireland, dealing with more murder and mayhem isn’t on her to-do list. Can she solve two crimes before St. Patrick’s Day? Or will the island’s annual celebrations end in a glittery flame of green, white, and orange?

Fifteen of Ireland's finest writers collaborated on this murder mystery that involves searching for the only manuscript of an unpublished novel by James Joyce. Raucous, raunchy, and completely hilarious, Yeats Is Dead! is a diabolically entertaining mulligan stew of a novel. James Joyce would be proud.

It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change.... Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.

As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it’s as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it’s a good time for Brennan’s cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election in a future peacetime government. But then a man goes off a bridge on a dark, lonely road; a rogue IRA enforcer is shot; and a series of car bombs remains an unsolved crime.

Book two in the Fyre & Stone series. Sebastian Fyre and John Stone are reluctantly reunited when they are hired by an aristocrat who believes he is going to be the victim of a murder. Deep in the heart of rural Ireland, where a thin veneer of the modern world covers centuries of superstition, Fyre and Stone find themselves embroiled in a set of mysterious murders and disappearances. Dark forces are at work, and have set in motion a dangerous and deadly chain reaction…

Amazon Reviews: “ASPHYXIA is up there with Connolly, Gerritsen, Cornwell and Cole’s work! Terrifying and unforgettable!” “A gripping and fast-paced tale of perverted murders with plenty of gore & populated with some very interesting characters.” "I could not put it down, sexy and gory...loved it! Hope there is going to be a Bannon series!!" "Hudson has the power to make you laugh and cringe in disgust all in one page." "It grabbed me from the very beginning & just kept grabbing. This is definitely a must read." “It made me laugh and in places made me shiver in disgust. I have ...

April in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O'Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a US law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is taking place. The town is abuzz with excitement, but it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event. The rain doesn't stop—it becomes relentless, torrential. In the middle of the night, Police Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto a passing vehicle.

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 ...

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 ...