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 t...

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...

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....

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...

He was only a little bit of a chap, and so, when for the first time in his life he came into close contact with the endless current of human things, it was as hard for him to "stay put" as for some wayward little atom of flotsam and jetsam to keep from tossing about in the surging tides of the sea. His mother had left him there in the big toy-shop, with instructions not to move until she came back, while she went off to do some mysterious errand. She thought, no doubt, that with so many be...

Some worlds are not that far off, all it takes is a nudge in the right direction. This book is one of those little nudges. It’s a book about eleven dreamers, eleven misfit birds, how they discovered their extraordinary talents and became part of Plumedini’s Traveling Circus of Super Chickens. It is a book about legends, and how these legends came to be. A collection of stories retold through the words of a wanderer, Cob Watson, who, for a happy period of his life, was given a chance to tag...

Electricity Slides is an experimental work, written in the Dadaist "cut-up" style of the 1950s. Begun as a series of live performance art monologues, Electricity Slides alternates between a third-person narrative and a first-person narrative of the nameless protagonist, a troubled and traumatized figure who speaks in a lyrical, poem/prose manner, in possession of a stolen, mind-altering substance through a connection with an equally nameless, equally mysterious woman. The...

For over twenty years, John Brady McDonald's day job has been working with youth. Over half of that time was spent as a Frontline Youth Outreach Worker on the streets of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. During that time, John would write down his thoughts and feelings on scraps of paper and in little black hardcover notebooks, chronicling the struggles and traumas of the youth he worked with and which he himself had also experienced. Never being quite the right fit for his other poetry books, ...

John Brady McDonald, MBSFA, a Nêhiyawak-Métis multidisciplinary artist and writer from Treaty Six Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada, is an award-winning author of multiple books who has presented at literary festivals around the world. Before all this, however, he was a young, urban Indigenous youth, struggling with addictions, the streets, and the pain and turmoil of intergenerational trauma as a residential school survivor and the child of residential school survivors.These raw, ...

This issue of HyphenPunk brings you six stories in three different -punk genres.CyberPunk by Erica Rivera, Bryce Meerhaeghe, John Brady, and Brian D. HinsonMythPunk by June MartinArcanoPunk by Vivian Moira Valentine

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 then   November late 1980s sees Garda Declan Kelly working his last off-duty shift outside a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder. Spared a bulle...