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Tag Archives: Irish Crime Fiction

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#BookReview of #TheLockUp by John Banville

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th November 20232 Comments

A Strafford and Quirke Mystery– The Lock-Up [ About The Lock-Up ] 1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered – an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim’s sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to…

#BookReview of #TheForfeit by Florence Gillan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th October 20232 Comments

‘Break the rules and face the consequences‘– The Forfeit [ About The Forfeit ] After enduring a turbulent childhood, Bree O Hagan has managed to build a good life for herself and her daughter, Amy. The arrival of a letter threatens to derail everything she has created. Suddenly her world is invaded by a malignant…

#BookReview of #BadSweetThings by Maria Hoey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st February 2022Leave a comment

[ About the Book ] Six women hunted one by one Each receives a copy of an old school group photo, in which their own face has been savagely scratched out.Within three weeks, two of them are dead. A Detective in a race against time Known to her colleagues as the Hound, DS Tina Bassett…

#BookReview of #CruelDeeds by @catherinekirwan | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th February 2022Leave a comment

‘A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER IS FOUND MURDERED’– Cruel Deeds [ About the Book ] Finn Fitzpatrick barely knows Mandy Breslin from the firm where they both work. Mandy moves in the privileged world of the senior partners’ clique. Finn keeps to herself. But Mandy has secrets and, as Finn is drawn deeper into her dead colleague’s…

#BookReview of #RememberMyName by Sam Blake @samblakebooks | @CorvusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th January 20222 Comments

‘If she’d turned off her phone, instead of listening in, perhaps no one would have died…‘– Remember My Name [ About the Book ] When Cressida Howard catches her entrepreneur husband playing away from home, she hires security expert Brioni O’Brien to get the evidence she needs for a speedy and financially rewarding divorce. But…

#BookReview of #BloodTies by @BrianMcGilloway

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th December 20212 Comments

The New Ben Devlin Thriller– Blood Ties [ About the Book ] How can a dead woman avenge herself on her killer twenty 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…

#BookReview of #TheBrideCollector by Siobhán MacDonald | @SiobhanMMacD @LittleBrownUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th July 20214 Comments

‘Who’s next to say I do and die?’– The Bride Collector [ About the Book ] Something old, something new Winter brings more than fierce Atlantic storms to the thriving tourist town of Kylebeggan in County Kerry. On a cold January night, a woman is murdered and laid out in her wedding dress on her…

#BookReview of #TheMurderBox by Olivia Kiernan | @LivKiernan | @riverrunbooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th July 20213 Comments

The fourth book in the acclaimed Frankie Sheehan series with a high-concept premise– The Murder Box [ About the Book ] Some games can be deadlyAt first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the…

#BookReview of #AKindOfDrowning by @cravenrobert

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th May 2021Leave a comment

‘The man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. CroweHis career as a detective is in tatters’– A Kind Of Drowning [ About the Book ] The man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. Crowe. His career as a detective is in tatters – he’s facing dismissal, vilified…

#BookReview #WhoTookEdenMulligan by Sharon Dempsey | @svjdempz | @AvonBooksUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th February 2021Leave a comment

‘They’re dead.They’re all dead.It’s my faultI killed them…’Who Took Eden Mulligan? [ About the Book ] ‘They’re dead. They’re all dead.It’s my fault. I killed them…’ Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast. Outside…

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