Irish Mystery

A member of a prominent New Jersey family has been found dead on St. Patrick's Day—and Pamela Paterson and her knitting club have a parade of suspects . . . The Listers have been part of Arborville society for generations—though seventy-something Isobel Lister doesn't fit the role of upper-crust heiress. She's always been a colorful character, and her fun-loving spirit is on display at the senior center celebration as she performs some beloved Irish songs. But just minutes later, her body is found backstage.

Although the adventurous Brim family are scattered around the world, they have one thing in common. It is the amazing Great Aunt Alicia and her two crazy Dalmatian dogs. But trying to find out what makes her tick is proving impossible. She always seems to be doing something scary somewhere else in the world. The adults just clam up when the kids ask questions! But could a breakthrough be just round the corner?

A triple homicide in a restaurant—just another workday for Detective Mario DeLuca. Join Detective Mario DeLuca and his partner, Howard Blitz, as they go deep into the streets of New Orleans to solve a triple homicide in one of the city's restaurants. Mario battles with his own demons while investigating the crime and trying to comprehend the tragedy. He also takes a stroll down memory lane to visit an old neighbor from his youth, discovering secrets held by Irish Bayou. At the same time, he is comforted by both Howard's and his own tenacity and kindness. The two detectives are excellent ...

Bernie moved to the Nature Coast to be near family and to fish. The Irish roots of Citrus County welcomed him. So did the Gaelic Folklore which is so important to the Irish. Mostly, he just blinks and carries on, but when bodies turn up he has to get involved. Will he figure out if Pu'ka did it? (Who the heck is Pu'ka?) Will he have to protect his family? Did the Pirates get their just desserts?

Moira, Deirdre and Nuala Gallagher, the three-sisters team of Gallagher Investigations, experience more encounters with troubled spirits needing their assistance before they can move on in the Afterlife. A grieving mother is reunited with the child who was taken from her. A hiker accosted by a predator gets retribution. A victim of institutionalized terror finds release. A woman haunted by the ghosts of her past finds peace, and two conspiring young men are set straight by their deceased mothers. Join the Gallagher girls for more adventures in Ireland and beyond.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER, KILL TOGETHER A smuggling operation, orchestrated by paramilitary groups representing both religious factions, takes a fatal turn when a local farmer loses his life, and journalist Jock McDevitt is left injured from a gunshot. This incident hits close to home for Ian Wilson, the leader of the Belfast Murder Squad, intensifying his determination to apprehend the perpetrators. As the Belfast Murder Squad delves into the investigation, they uncover a web of criminal conspiracies that transcend old rivalries, uniting former foes from opposite sides of the sectarian divide. ...

Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging—and sparks a flurry of speculation. What does a woman like her see in a man like that? What happened to his wife who abandoned him and his children all those years ago? Carol and Declan know their relationship is the talk of the town, but the gossip only serves to bring the couple closer.

Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now 15 and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears.

Bernie is in search of all the things he missed out on by leaving Florida when he was young. He’d been too young for a fishing license then and was too old to need one now; what had he done all his life? The Irish determination in his blood has him methodically correcting the error of his ways. He buys a boat, hires a guide, gets mixed up in another murder… Yes, you heard right, another murder. Is there anything worse than finding a boy? Maybe finding part of one... Does Bernie regret taking up freshwater fishing? What is it about the steamy-semi-tropical lakes of west-central-Florida ...

An ancient injustice, a haunting mystery, and a village’s secret past... In 1846, the Clancy brothers—James and John—were wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit and sent to the penal colonies of Australia, their lives forever altered. Now, 100 years later, Bridgie Ned, a brave young girl in Doona Village, stumbles upon a forgotten secret that could set the brothers’ spirits free. Guided by whispers from the otherworld, Bridgie and her gang must uncover the truth behind the Clancy brothers' conviction. But as the villagers begin to feel the stirrings of the past, ...

In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns.

A young man conflicted by duty, honour and love. A single mother and her child. James Brennan is entirely human and willing to risk all for the woman he loves and the innocents he must protect.

To find her missing sister, small-town cop Maya Hutchinson risks her life by posing as her glamorous twin. Under escalating attacks, Maya accepts protection from dashing senator's son, Connor McNamara. Cop turned PI, Connor McNamara has his own secret mission and is forced to choose between family loyalty and love. hen the scent of danger draws near, will Connor and Maya survive long enough to forgive and accept each other? Secrets of Rios Azules series: sweet, wholesome books about faith, love, and murder. Welcome to Rios Azules, a small Texas town where rivers and emotions run deep, and ...

A Mystery of Magic, Loyalty, and Ancient Secrets Strange things are stirring again in the quiet village of Doona. When a fisherman returns from the dead and whispers of leprechauns begin to spread, twelve-year-old Bridgie Campbell finds herself at the heart of a growing mystery. The Leprechauns of the Western Wild—thirteen in all, led by the cheerful but weary King Rua—have been locked out of their hidden home, Doona Hollow, nestled deep beneath the Sandy Banks. Without the Doona Hollow Key, a powerful magical relic once hidden in a chest of ancient Spanish gold, they cannot return. And...

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior.

'Fans of L J Ross and Elly Griffiths will love this.' A sinister and systematic crime – the hunt for a meticulous and elusive villain. Isobel McKenzie, a psychotherapist, discovers the body of a young woman along the banks of the Shannon. She has been raped and strangled. As the news spreads, other rape victims contact Isobel confidentially. Their stories are so shockingly similar that it is clear a serial rapist is at large. Garda Detective Inspector Eoin Ryan and Sergeant Alanna Finnegan are on the case. As Isobel shares the details of the unreported rapes with them, they realise that a...

MADNESS ON THE ISLAND (Detective Liam O’Reilly #14) by Stewart Giles From bestselling author: Stewart Giles comes another brilliant addition to the Detective Liam O’Reilly series. Midsummer madness has hit the island of Guernsey with a vengeance. The residents of the peaceful island are behaving irrationally. It starts with an exclusive dinner party where two lifelong friends are hospitalised following a brutal fight, but things soon spiral out of control. The first body is found, and Detective Inspector Liam O'Reilly is sent out to investigate. A man has been maimed beyond recognition....

From bestselling author: Stewart Giles comes book 3 in the brilliant Detective Liam O’Reilly series. It's mid-summer on the island of Guernsey and Detective Liam O'Reilly is winding down for the day. He's enjoying a quiet drink with his daughter when a man in bike leathers walks inside the pub. O'Reilly doesn't even register him until he hears the gunshot. The man has taken out a gun and shot the barman twice in the face. "Not everything is as it seems." Says the gunman as he leaves the people inside the pub with something to think about before he calmly walks out of the pub. Then another...

Jack Kelly goes to Lisdoonvarna to find a wife and uncovers a dead body instead. Robert Kelly, former police detective, wants his son to find love at the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking festival in Ireland. Instead they find a dead body in this funny, page-turning thriller which features murder, a chaotic hurling match, a frightening horse race and squadrons of priest and nuns patrolling all the matchmaking dances like guards at a prison camp. The Kelly's investigate against the backdrop of an impending civil war in Ireland, disapproving religious and a town's ruthless approach to matchmaking. Can...

Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer, a knight of the realm, disappears while travelling from her husband’s manor to Bampton. She and her maid are traveling in an enclosed wagon, while her husband, his grooms, and a squire are mounted. When the party arrives at Bampton Castle neither the lady nor her maid are within the enclosed wagon: They have simply vanished. As the disappearance may have happened while the travelers were on Lord Gilbert’s lands, his surgeon and bailiff, Hugh de Singleton, is assigned to discover what has happened to the lady. Has she been taken or has she fled?