London at the dawn of 1918 and Ireland's most famous literary figure, WB Yeats, is immersed in supernatural investigations at his Bloomsbury rooms.Haunted by the restless spirit of an Irish girl whose body is mysteriously washed ashore in a coffin, Yeats undertakes a perilous journey back to Ireland with his apprentice ghost-catcher Charles Adams to piece together the killer's identity.Surrounded by spies, occultists and Irish rebels, the two are led on a gripping journey a...

'Haunting and poetic' Crime Reads'Unexpected, thought-provoking, and unsettling' Liz RobinsonThe sole survivor of a murderous ambush, a Belfast police detective is forced into a desperate search for a mysterious informer that takes him to a holy island on Lough Derg, a place shrouded in strange mists and hazy rain, where nothing is as it first appears to be.A keeper of secrets and a purveyor of lies, the detective finds himself surr...

A charred corpse and a set of footprints in the snow lead Celcius Daly into the twilight world of people trafficking. Inspector Celcius Daly is hunting for a missing woman who disappeared one winter's night along the Irish border, leaving in her wake the corpses of two men.Soon Daly is involved in a life-or-death chase, leading him deep into border country: a wild terrain of disappearing lanes and blown-up bridges, abandoned ghost-estates and thick forests – the ultimate refuge for...

Celsius Daly, ein Northern Irish Police Inspector, ist Mitte vierzig und geschieden. Nach dem Mord an seiner Mutter und kehrt er in seinen Heimatort zurück, um ihr Haus zu verkaufen. Die Leiche eines toten Polizisten wird am Lough Neagh ans Ufer angeschwemmt. Niemand ist sich sicher, ob es sich um Selbstmord, Mord oder einen Unfall handelt. Als der Tote als Detective Brian Carey der Garda Síochána identifiziert wird, entdeckt Daly schnell, dass Carey gegen Tom Morgan ermittelt hat. Einen e...

A bizarre road accident propels Celcius Daly into an investigation that will reveal the truth about his mother's death thirty years ago.Father Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting evidence of murder: an unsolved killing spree of unparalleled savagery that blighted Ireland's borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death: victims, weapons, wounds, dates – and somehow, amid the fore...

Dublin 1919. A city at war with itself, a cauldron of soldiers, spies, rebels and political intrigue. The mysterious and seductive Lily Merrin, secretary at Dublin Castle, is on a mission but whose side is she on and what is compelling her to consider the ultimate sacrifice?Charismatic Irish revolutionary leader, Michael Collins burns with a vision for his country, but others are plotting his downfall. And now Martin Kant, an English journalist, enters the arena. A serial killer is...

A new crime series set in the brooding landscape of the Scottish borders from the author of the Celcius Daly series.Not long out of the fast-track training course at Edinburgh's police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is about to be tested to breaking point.She's been called to Deepwell psychiatric hospital in the Scottish borders to interview a patient who has confessed to the murder of one of the hospital's psychotherapists. The co...

A policeman's death leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption.Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order have ground to a halt, and whose residents, ruined by a chain of bankruptcies, have fallen under the spell of a malevolent crime boss with powerful connections. Out of his jurisdiction and out of his comfort zone, Daly is plunged into a shadow...

The abduction of a child entangles Celcius Daly in a forty-year-old quest for justice.Inspector Celcius Daly is leading the search for a ten-year-old boy, abducted in broad daylight from the car park outside Armagh Courthouse. His investigation leads to a notorious group of travellers long suspected of smuggling and organised crime. Digging deeper, Daly discovers some harrowing truths about their past treatment and unearths a family secret linked to an unsolved crime during the Tro...

The sole survivor of a murderous ambush, a Belfast police detective is forced into a desperate search for a mysterious informer that takes him to a holy island on Lough Derg, a place shrouded in strange mists and hazy rain, where nothing is as it first appears to be. A keeper of secrets and a purveyor of lies, the detective finds himself surrounded by enemies disguised as pilgrims and is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the purgatorial island, where he is forced to confront a series of d...

Eine verkohlte Leiche, ein ausgebrannter Wagen und eine Reihe von Fußspuren im Schnee führen Celcius Daly in die zwielichtige Welt des Menschenhandels. Die Grenze zwischen Nordirland und der Republik ist ein rauer Ort: kalt, windgepeitscht und dunkel. Für die aus Osteuropa hierher gebrachten Mädchen kann es genauso gut ein Kriegsgebiet sein. Ein Bauernhaus-Bordell in der Nähe von South Armagh erweist sich als Hölle für die Frauen. Eines Nachts nimmt ein Zuhälter eine von ihnen mit auf eine...

Drei Generationen von Frauen übernehmen das Familienunternehmen der Skelfs in Edinburgh. Ein Bestattungsinstitut mit angeschlossener Privatdetektei. Die Leiche des ehemaligen Familienoberhaupts äschern sie auf seinen Wunsch hin illegal in ihrem Garten ein. Bald darauf entdecken seine Frau Dorothy, seine Tochter Jenny und seine Enkelin Hannah mysteriöse Zahlungen an eine andere Frau, die darauf hindeuten, dass Jim nicht der Ehemann war, für den sie ihn gehalten haben. Damit nicht genug, ver...