The murder of a tourist a decade ago has left open wounds. When an outsider begins to question the past, it changes everything.The fourth Inspector Minogue mystery opens on a drizzly October in Dublin: Minogue is daydreaming of Greece’s blue skies. His plans for a trip there are suddenly dashed: Hoey, his partner in the Garda Murder Squad, has tried to kill himself. To compound Minogue’s problems, family duty calls. His nephew has been arrested for suspected IRA gun running....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A homeless man is beaten to death in a park. In today's crisis-ridden, Darwinian Ireland, does no-one care?The miracle of Celtic Tiger Ireland has imploded but something stirs in the rubble and seizes the attention of a weary public: Pádraig Larkin, a homeless, mentally ill alcoholic, is beaten to death in a park. Public indignation rises as the case remains unsolved. Is there no justice for an outcast in today’s Ireland ?Minogue and the volatile Tommy Malone are put on the ...

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Booming Celtic Tiger ireland is a magnet for the world - and for ruthless crime syndicates.In the seventh in the Minogue series, Dublin is roaring, spinning and racing full throttle to the future. The tiger economy sends seismic shocks through every level of society. The din of construction rings out over the crush of traffic, while crowds spill into streets, alight with the glitter of high-end restaurants and the glare of night clubs.But Dublin's gangland bares its teeth. T...

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...

A copper learns he has been living a lie: the past returns with a vengeance.In this eight novel in the series, Inspector Minogue is trying to keep up with a Celtic Tiger Ireland that’s racing to the future. But as the saying goes, the past isn’t dead: it’s not even past.Dublin thenNovember late 1980s sees Garda Declan Kelly working his last off-duty shift outside a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder. Spared a bullet in the back of the head, he is snared inst...