Ireland Police Procedural

When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal—her card identifies her as Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland's most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie....

THE MOST DANGEROUS PROFESSION In a Belfast park, a grim discovery shatters the peace: the torso of a young woman, a life tragically cut short. With scant evidence, no discernible crime scene, and a baffling absence of motive, Ian Wilson and his dedicated murder squad find themselves facing an uphill battle to unearth the identity of the victim. As they tirelessly probe for answers, Wilson is forced to confront his own past, delving into a haunting murder case that had eluded his grasp in the past. This journey down memory lane unveils a long-buried secret linked to one of the last vestiges ...

Five books. One sprawling conspiracy. A city drowning in blood and secrets. Alderman James thought atonement would be quiet—keep his head down in Georgian Dublin, solve petty crimes, and bury the sins of his youth beneath duty and discipline. Then the Dolocher tears its first throat open in the snow-choked Liberties, and James discovers that some cases don't end when the killer hangs. They metastasize. Over five novels spanning years of murder, manipulation, and mounting dread, James descends into a nightmare where every solved mystery reveals three more lurking beneath. Copycat killers ...

From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, a New York Times bestselling novel that “proves anew that [Tana French] is one of the most talented crime writers alive” (The Washington Post). “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and...

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is...

An Irish-American police officer and a British intelligence officer face off against a dangerous terrorist who's holding people hostage in Saint Patrick's Cathedral. St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and...

A wealthy couple is found brutally murdered. Their young son is missing. And one detective is about to be dragged back into a past he thought he'd buried. Detective Sergeant Conal Brophy is struggling to stay afloat—personally and professionally. When a high-profile double murder shakes the quiet Irish town of Woodstown, Brophy is handed the case that could either redeem his career—or destroy it. But nothing about the crime scene adds up. No witnesses. No motive. And the missing boy, Sean, has vanished without a trace. As Brophy digs deeper, a familiar name from an old, unsolved case ...

How long can you live in fear, always peering over your shoulder? The gruesome murder of Lizzie Rice, the mother of one of Belfast's most notorious crime kingpins, threatens to unleash a powder keg of violence on the city's streets. With riots erupting and a growing body count, each victim meeting a similarly brutal end, it becomes abundantly clear that DCI Ian Wilson and his dedicated Murder Squad are facing a chilling and cunning serial killer. To outsmart this ruthless murderer, Wilson must navigate both the labyrinthine corridors of the past and the shadows of his own present. "Death to...

The Church moved him. The law forgot him. Someone remembered.When a defrocked priest is found dead in his Belfast flat, the scene is disturbing but the reaction is muted. Father Dermot Quinn abused seventeen children. Spent thirty years escaping justice. Lived on a Church pension until someone arranged him like a saint awaiting judgment—candles lit, rosary threaded through his fingers, psalm open at his head.DS Rose Gallagher knows murder when she sees it. And when a second priest appears—same staging, same history, same escape from accountability—she knows she's hunting someone with ...

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn’t be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention.

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 ...

Fear is cutting deep in Derry. Two hairdressers are dead. The latest, Gloria Baggot, was killed in the one place no one saw danger coming—the shower. She lathered her own death into her hair. DI Liam McLaughlin and his Major Investigation Team can’t find a clean link between the two women—no shared history, no shared enemies, no obvious motive. The only thing they had in common was their profession. And that alone is enough to spread terror through the city’s salons. As panic ripples across Derry, the investigation peels back layers of debt, secrets, and quiet desperation. Someone ...

It all started in Southport, Merseyside, a seventeen-year-old man killing three and injuring ten young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class, his weapon of choice, a kitchen knife. The murders sparked protests and riots around the country, mainly aimed at the Muslim community and the hotels housing illegal immigrants. People were beaten, properties vandalized, and as usual the boys in blue were stuck in the middle of it all. Could things get worse? Of course they could. A small group of people saw the rioting as an opportunity to escalate things to a higher level, to act against the migrants,...

It’s all change at Mill Street Station. The old hierarchy has been retired and a new broom has swept its last vestiges away. As a consequence Fiona Madden has been promoted to detective inspector and now heads up the CID unit. Sean Tracy has taken her post as detective sergeant. Their first case under the new regime comes quickly. A man has been shot in the back outside the holiday village of Letterfrack. The dead man is not a local but has a connection to a past that the villagers would like to forget. The victim is identified be a for former member of the Society of Christian Brothers ...

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They made a pact to survive. Someone's using it to kill them. Six retired Belfast dockworkers and their wives spent forty years hauling cargo for poverty wages. When automation took their jobs, their pensions weren't enough to live on. So they made a deal: when one of them dies, hide the body, forge the paperwork, keep collecting. Split the money between whoever's left. It worked for fifteen years. Now the survivors are dying—and not from old age.DS Rose Gallagher investigates what begins as pension fraud and becomes serial murder. Each death looks like an accident. Each victim is a ...

Three ways to die, one baffling case. DI McLaughlin and DS D’Arcy face their strangest case to date: a harmless vagrant found dead—apparently killed three different ways. Who wanted him dead, and how many killers are on the loose? Each ugly truth drags the MIT deeper, until only one thing is clear: this is their most heartless homicide yet. The third of the NUMBER ONE bestselling Derry Murder Mysteries, Three Times a Killer is a standalone, another gripping, gritty mystery thriller with jaw-dropping twists and a touch of Gerald Hansen's signature dark humor.

A gruesome murder with a strange twist. Supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps has been strangled, stripped to her underwear, her body found straddling one of the cannons of Derry’s city walls. And why has the killer done that with her thumb? For seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin and the ragtag officers of the Major Investigation Team, it’s a homicide they’ve never seen the likes of before. Middle-aged Regina might have kept herself to herself, but she always had a smile for everyone she came across. Who could have wanted to do her harm? Was she just unlucky? But delving deeper into her ...

A wave lifts the stern of the boat, rigging groans in protest and a crash comes from down below, as the wails of the cargo rise above the howl of the storm. It's a wild Christmas Day on the rugged Northern Irish coast. But there's no time for turkey and pud with the family for Detectives Harvey and Birch. DS Aaron Birch leans into the wind and driving sleet. Thick, scudding clouds make the streets of Lisburn almost as dark as early evening. Then he gets the tip-off. Smugglers coming into a boatyard in Bangor.

Forget Scandi-noir. Welcome to Derry-noir. DI Liam McLaughlin leads a scrappy crew in the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland: DS Nancy D’Arcy, a sharp-edged upstart with something to prove; DC Tom Lyons, a self-styled ladies’ man running on charm and denial; DC Fern Hawkins, a tech savant who sees what others miss and DC Henry “Hens” Cahill, the rookie still learning when to speak and when to run. Two chilling standalone cases drag them into the darkest corners of Derry: You’ll Get Yours — A woman is found strangled and grotesquely displayed on ...