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TV producer Jimmy Fyffe starts taking anabolic steroids to restore the 'manliness' he has lost in a high-pressure career and unhappy marriage. His plan works – a little too well. Soon he is a cocaine dealer, carving out a market in Dublin's more affluent suburbs. This draws him into conflict with two established drugs gangs. He is kidnapped, beaten and terrorised, and is linked to the killing of a drugs-lord and two Gardaí.Is Jimmy next to die, or will the same newfound machismo th...

Be his "wife" for 30 days…I'm not a player—no one can compare to the fiery showgirl I left behind in Vegas. So when she shows up claiming to be my wife, I know it's our second chance even if she doesn't want anything from me except a divorce.There's only one thing a husband can do… blackmail. She's going to live with me, sleep in my bed, and be my wife for 30 days.Her only rule?No sex...Unless she begs for it.And oh, am I goi...

I'm his muse. His addiction.Rian Merrick is a wildly talented tattoo artist, the unhinged "rockstar" professor on campus. Everyone's obsession.Now, I'm his.He doesn't care that I'm his student. He won't stop til I belong to him and he's ruined me.I'm trying to resist him—Lord knows, I'm trying—but my body screams for him. Why do I ache for him even though I know it's wrong? How can something that feels like Heaven be a sin?He thought...

He can't stay away...Grumpy bad-boy tattoo artist, Conor Mac Haol, doesn't trust anyone. Least of all the new girl apprenticing at his beloved Dublin Ink.She is way too pretty and way, way too young.Coming from a broken home, Aurnia has had to grow up faster than most girls. She doesn't need anyone telling her what to do.Least of all Conor, her new (very hot, very muscled, very tattooed, and very, very rude) boss who obviously hates her....

**“There is so much to like about the cozy perfection that is Catie Murphy’s Death on the Green, from the lush Irish travelogue to the precise balance between comic relief and crime.”*—Bookpage STARREDAs an American in Dublin, limo driver Megan Malone will need the luck of the Irish to avoid a*** head-on collision—with a killer . . .Life has been non-stop excitement for American Army veteran Megan Malone ever since she moved to Irel...

“There is so much to like about the cozy perfection that is Catie Murphy’s Death on the Green, from the lush Irish travelogue to the precise balance between comic relief and crime.”—Bookpage STARRED REVIEWSquiring a self-proclaimed heiress around Dublin has got limo driver Megan Malone’s Irish up—until she finds the woman dead . . .American-born Cherise Williams believes he...

THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL--------------------------...

He will do anything to keep her… even kill.I came to Dublin to fix my relationship with my brother. I didn't mean to become obsessed with the tattooed goddess with haunted eyes—his best friend.One lie turned into another. Stalking her turned into taking her. Now, I'll do anything to keep her… including putting my baby in her belly. Even if it means I lose my brother forever.But her dangerous past is returning to claim her. If my brother and I can't ...

From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the hit series Sex/Life on Netflix) comes the highly anticipated sequel to her dark Irish mafia romance, Devil of Dublin.Growing up, I spent every night tucked under my mother’s arm, dreamily listening to tales from her favorite book series—Legend Has It by Darby Donovan—a collection of spooky folklore about a town called Glenshire and the...