Irish Mystery

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When local businessman Jed Greenberg is found dead with a Chocolate lab whimpering over his body, the police start sniffing around Robbie Jordan's country restaurant for answers. Was it something in Robbie's hot cocoa that killed Jed, or was it Cocoa the dog? As the suspects pile as high as her holiday tree, Robbie attempts to get to the bottom of the sickly sweet murder.

Someone Has To Pay is a fast-paced thriller set in the last days of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. The British Government’s top counter-intelligence agent, Mike Devon, has been put in charge of a daring plan to strike havoc at the heart of the IRA. His mission is a simple one – bring the terror organisation to its knees and force them to take their seats at the peace table. But the IRA has its own ruthless operative, a man who will stop at nothing to kick the Brits out of Ireland. Standing in the middle is the RUC’s best detective. He’s out to stop both sides turning the streets of ...

Haunted by her ex-husband’s deceits, can Skye unravel the clues to discover a new life?During an ill-fated job hunt in Miami, Skye O’Shea wants to run away from the betrayal of her loved ones. A black bird's ominous message, a cryptic warning from a resident at a retirement home, and the echoes of a raven's caw all beckon her toward a destiny she never imagined. A revelation sets her on a journey where every twist and turn reveals a new enchanting secret, and every new puzzle brings Skye one step closer to the extraordinary destiny she never knew awaited her. A Mystical Legacy: A Skye ...

In order to secure my place in the Irish Mafia, I agree to an arranged marriage. A marriage with a willing bride, one groomed to be the wife of a mafia king. What I get is a redheaded beauty hell-bent on my destruction. That doesn’t stop me from wanting her. From needing to taste her ruby red lips. The fire that blazes in her defiant eyes lights a desire inside of me that demands I claim her as my own. While she wastes my time defying me with every breath, the North rises up demanding retribution for a crime that was buried a long time ago.

Jake Scarne has retired. But he has mixed feelings about it. He suspects that there is more to life than golf outings and sojourns down the Jersey Shore. Little does he know that some of his old skills will come in handy when the Staten Island Ferry he is on is hijacked! The hijackers claim they are terrorists. But their real motives are more venal. Scarne avails himself of possibly the most unusual ally he's ever had. But there is death and tragedy in this twisty tale that reminds some critics of two classic movies: DIE HARD and THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE-TWO-THREE. “IF YOU LIKE HARD-...

After surviving an attempt on his life in Paris, Sherlock Holmes returns to London, where the great detective is almost immediately enlisted by his brother to secure the safety of the delegates at a top-secret peace conference. With Europe a veritable powder keg in the years before World War I, Holmes understands any misstep on his part could prove fatal and possibly plunge the continent into war. However, after pledging to do his utmost for "King and Country", Holmes suddenly finds himself overwhelmed by an onslaught of cases.

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.

A man is found in his car, having met a painful death. Another man is found in the woods, clearly murdered. DI Aidan Burke seeks to establish the connection between these deaths. The first man is a wealthy property developer. Little is known about the second victim. Burke's sergeant, DS Fiona Moore, sets to work gathering evidence. But the investigation turns up some unusual findings that point to serious organized criminal activity.

Although the adventurous Brim family are scattered around the world, they have one thing in common. It is the amazing Great Aunt Alicia and her two crazy Dalmatian dogs. But trying to find out what makes her tick is proving impossible. She always seems to be doing something scary somewhere else in the world. The adults just clam up when the kids ask questions! But could a breakthrough be just round the corner?

Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope with her OCD; the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the return of her long-absent mother, who barely seems like a parent. But all that really matters to her is ascending and finally, finally becoming a full witch - plans that are complicated when another coven, rumored to have a sordid history with black magic, arrives in town with premonitions of death. Dayna immediately finds herself at odds with the bewitchingly frustrating Meiner King, the granddaughter of their coven leader.

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.

How can a dead woman avenge herself on her killer 20 years after her murder? This is the puzzle facing Ben Devlin in his latest case. He is called to the scene of a murder - a man has been stabbed to death in his rented room, and when his identity is discovered, Devlin feels a ghost walk over his grave, as he knows the name Brooklyn Harris well. As a teenager, Harris beat his then-girlfriend Hannah Row to death, and then spent 12 years in prison for the murder.

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 ...

He was coming for me. He was going to take what was left of my soul. That’s if his world didn’t take it first. Kinsley Daniel was my everything and then he was gone. Ripped away, leaving me in a world that took on dull shades. Leaving me to my guilt. Guilt that ate a hole through my very soul. Fin was the one person who could make me feel again he was my secret shame. I was running from everything he stood for everything he made me remember. But no matter how hard I ran or how far he always found me. He says I’m his. I shouldn’t want him I shouldn’t need him, he was Daniel’s ...

Four ghost stories from England’s historic shires present a heady brew of the Gothic, folk horror, historical fiction and satire. The Ghost of Scarside Beck A newly-wed Cumbrian vicar and his wife experience a night like none they could ever have foreseen. He may have answered his calling, but who, or what, is calling her? At Fall of Night A ghostly excursion into the Victorian Gothic; a tale of obsession, terror, and vengeance. Welcome to Wiltshire in the autumn of 1843. Monsieur Benoit Lavarnier, toast of the Parisian art world and a man of cultured accomplishments, finds himself ...

The Aldens visit Ireland and stay in a beautiful castle that's now a hotel! But the caretaker seems very superstitious, and at night they see a mysterious figure who walks the halls carrying a lantern. Could it be one of the banshees of ancient legend? The Boxcar Children must discover the secret that Duncarraig castle is hiding!

In 1926, a young Scotsman meets an Irish girl, who mysteriously appears in his backyard like sleepwalking. She claims to be from another time, presuming this is some Dreamworld. A few days later, she appears again, but this time older, and then once again, already a teen, aging in a matter of a month. He falls in love, they marry, and she bears him four sons, three of whom die at war, and then she disappears again, only to deepen the unsolved mystery.

Lady Audley is universally adored: Beautiful, kind and charming, she enamors all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behavior takes an odd turn. George's friend, Robert Audley, Lady Audley's nephew-in-law, is on the case; an upper-class layabout turned detective, he is determined to get to the bottom of things.

Single-mom and police chief's daughter Kate Buckley is all about family. After she receives an urgent text from her younger sister Colleen, she puts her life on hold and rushes to her Irish-themed hometown of Shamrock, Massachusetts, where her family owns and operates a bed and breakfast. With her two daughters in tow, she's ready to fight if it means she can help her charming but hapless sibling. When they arrive, Colleen claims it was all a misunderstanding. But everything changes in an Irish minute when Colleen's best friend, Deirdre, a dance show star, is found dead in the parish hall.