A student’s murder in the grounds of Dublin’s famous Trinity College brings out Ireland’s darker secrets.In this first of the ten-book Inspector Matt Minogue series, a brutal murder in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin sparks a police investigation with unexpected consequences for Sergeant Matt Minogue of the Garda Murder Squad.When the body of student Jarlath Walsh is discovered with his head beaten in, Minogue instinctively knows that this is no random killing. Walsh...

Ireland is reeling from the shocks of the economic crash, but Dublin’s still a small place. Bernadette Cummins is frantic: her only surviving son Gary is missing. Because her husband is a criminal godfather serving a sentence, Bernie can’t trust that the Guards will search for her son.She turns to her childhood friend for help - Sheila Malone, Sergeant Tommy Malone’s Ma. With Bernie Gannon facing cancer, Sheila won’t let her down.In a meet with Bernie’s infamous husband, Ma...

This book is a collection of poetry by Kay Sulimay Brady, who put her first poetic verse to paper in 1940 at the age of nineteen. Kay's writing shares her feelings on many subjects that were close to her heart--nature and the seasons, love, memories, patriotism, family, faith, and even a nod to local sports. Her poetry reflects a wide range of emotion--joy, introspection, inspiration, sadness, gratitude, appreciation, and touches of whimsy. Kay reflected these emotions back to the reader a...

The body on the beach was that of a young man. he had been shot in the head at close range. Professionally.In the third of the Inspector Minogue series, a body washed up on a beach is the son of a prominent Irish family – but there is a catch: ‘He’s one of our own all right, but a Jew nonetheless.’Paul Fine was the son of a prominent judge whose family had lived in Dublin for generations and who had played a key role in the city’s small, complex Jewish community. The evidenc...

A harmless English ex-pat retiree is strangled in his rural cottage.In this second of the Inspector Minogue series, Arthur Combs is found murdered, the life choked out of him by a rope around his neck and a knee between his shoulder-blades. The method is obvious, but the motive is far less evident.As an English expatriate retiree in Dublin, the decrepit seventy-three year old Combs lived a solitary existence with few friends, but no enemies.Or so it seems when Sergean...

In retrospect, after having long researched these assassination cases, it became apparent that an undefined, fictional undercurrent— a mystery of sorts, a mysterious veil— is connected to these two murder cases that also has not been addressed. This mystery continues to be enveloped in the criminal reasoning of how and why these assassins arrived at a point in their lives where they were driven to kill. Certain aspects of these two assassinations spawned a mystifying search for the real id...

A screenwriter wants gritty and researches Dublin’s violent criminals. How deep is too deep for his research?Ireland's Hundred Thousand Welcomes continues to draw immigrants to its faltering Celtic Tiger economy. For those hundreds of thousands of Poles - Catholic, hard-working, white and like the Irish, survivors of an overbearing neighbour - Ireland works.But the Tiger devours too. Barely a week in Ireland. 20-year-old Tadeusz Klos lies in a coma on a rainswept Dublin str...

"Details Sinatra and Gardner's tumultuous romance . . . all the while painting a broader portrait of Hollywood's Golden Age." — USA TodayWhen Ava Gardner was emerging as a movie star, she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and num...

John Brady, editor of Writer's Digest and himself an accomplished interviewer, has put together an indispensable guide to the art of questioning. In a lively, down-to-earth manner, "The Craft of Interviewing" covers all aspects of the interview process -- getting the interview, doing research, handling the subject face-to-face, hurdling hazards, getting tough, taking notes (on the sly, if need be), taping, dealing with off-the-record types, concluding the interview, verifying it, and writi...

For centuries, the remote valleys of southern Austria have seen their smugglers, their hunters and their wars. Two bodies in the forest show that an old order lives on.It has been a long winter here in the hills of southern Austria. Inspektor Felix Kimmel, officer with the Austrian Gendarmerie, is staring at two bodies on a path in the woods. This is clearly beyond the abilities of his local Gendarmerie detachment.The Kripo from Graz soon takes over. Experts they may be, bu...

A young woman wants her share of the good life - but at what cost?The fifth Inspector Minogue novel begins on Dublin’s Grand Canal. Long a favoured place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll, the canal banks have become a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. Waters that harboured elegant swans now wash up syringes and dead bodies.This is where Mary Mullen is found, her body battered and callously left to jam in a canal lock. She wanted ‘the good life,’ but afte...