Can people name some Irish crime authors? What novels have been set in Ireland?
Can people name some Irish crime authors?
What novels have been set in Ireland?
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Can people name some Irish crime authors?
What novels have been set in Ireland?
Tana French, Stuart Neville, Adrian Mckinty
@David
Thanks Janet !
John Conolly ..didn’t know he was Irish.
John is Irish, but his Charlie Parker series are set in the US, mostly Maine.
I know his books are set in Ireland ,but don’t know if David pearson is Irish x
Jo Spain. Stuart Neville
@Liz, Claire Allan
Steve Cavanagh – his previous titles Thirteen is still in the book charts a year after its release!
Just found a real life crime book ..NYPD Green by Luke Waters
@Sharon @Sharon @David….Three amazing Irish storytellers..
@Livia thank you ???
@Livia ?
Thank you @Livia!
A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell (The Dublin Trilogy).
I’ve not heard of this author before
@Jason He’s one of my favourites. Lots of humour too.
I’ve heard he’s also incredible in the sack. ?
She ain’t talking about the books. #sheis
@Jason He’s SO good..as an author that is ???
Well have to admit to taking him to bed on many occasions……he always makes me laugh
Ken Bruen – the jack taylor books
Tana French
Ken Bruen – fantastic writer.
I agree. The economy of his writing is amazing. He manages to pack in what would take most writers twice as many words. His stories appear simple, but say so much.
@David All great reads set on the west coast. Only 99p https://www.amazon.co.uk/MURDER-HOLIDAY-HOME-detectives-investigate-ebook/dp/B07P9W6T6J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1552858530&sr=1-1&keywords=david+pearson
Cheers David!
Also try @Valerie aka Keogh Only 99p https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-One-May-Smile-Novels-ebook/dp/B00L2JF9ZO/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1552858835&sr=1-6&keywords=valerie+keogh
@David Thanks, David, xx
Graham Norton’s two novels are great.
CL Taylor’s The Escape is largely set in Ireland.
@Daithi has three crime thrillers set in Ireland The Tadhg Sullivan Series. Really enjoyed these books
Brian MacGiilivray
Stuart Neville
Patricia Gibney and Brian McGilloway
Anne Crosse, Kevin McManus
@David thank you
Adrian McKinty, the Sean Duffy series
I love the Duff books
I love @Liz
Andrea Carter, series set in Inishowen, with a solicitor as central character. Liz Nugent, brilliant stand-alones. Ken Bruen, series set in Galway featuring PI Jack Taylor (great TV adaptation starring Iain Glen). Brian McGilloway, Anthony Quinn, Declan Hughes, Tana French, Sinead Crowley, Claire McGowan, Jo Spain, Stuart Neville. Eoin McNamee, both fiction and true crime based fictionalisations. Benjamin Black’s 1950s Dublin Quirke series. And that’s only scratching the surface.
Benjamin Black has also written a hard boiled PI novel featuring Chandler’s Philip Marlowe.
Arlene Hunt
Jane Casey, Claire McGowan
Adrian McKinty. Tana French. Ken Breun – all world class.
And steve Cavanagh although the books aren’t set in Ireland.
A few more to add to the list compiled by @Paul ; @Maria @Patricia @Laurence @David. @JJ
casey hill
I had forgot about CH
Thank you @Kevin, you are a very fine writer yourself.
Cheers @Maria
Claire Allen, set in Derry,
I’m listening to an audiobook just now called Little Girl Lost by Brian McGilloway.
Jo Spain
Dervla McTiernan – The Ruin
Tana French, Brian McGilloway, Claire McGowan, Stuart Neville, Michael Scanlon – many more!
Jane Casey, Caroline Mitchell, Patricia Gibney, Claire Allen, Steve Cavanagh, Louise Phillips
Claire McGowan, Stuart Neville, @Steve?
Graham Masterton’s Katie Maguire series set in Ireland.
Jo Spain
Patricia Gibney (Lottie Parker series)
I was going say Patricia Gibney too but @Moira beat me to it! 🙂
@Carol ?I love her books
@Moira She is such a good writer and a great person. Met her a couple of times at the Bookouture events and chat a lot to her here when we’re both struggling with deadlines. We share the same editor. 🙂 x
@Carol I’m jealous ?
Love her Lottie Parker
Yesss I love these books too
I’ve yet to read anything by this author
@Jason you should, she’s so gritty and down to earth
@Jason you must read them brilliant series
@Declan, @Declan, Sam Blake, @Anthony, me!
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes… Nora Roberts who wrote many trilogies that take place in Ireland. Kathleen Grissom who wrote that wonderful book, The Kitchen House, Tana French who is one of my favorite thriller writers and Samantha Young, an excellent writer, who pens adult dramatic romances, and they all take place in Dublin.
I’m reading a book by Jo Spain, she’s Irish
I have her latest book on my tbr pile
Dirty little secrets?? I started it yesterday and read 152 pages, couldn’t put it aside
Dirty Little Secrets is the one
great story, hope you will enjoy it too xx
There’s a novel I read about an Irish boy, from a working class family in Ireland (can’t remember the town) who grows up to be a classical dancer, (in the beginning it was much to his father’s chagrin that he would be practicing dance moves instead of playing football with his mates. Does anyone know the name of this book. I think his nane was Billy.. I can’t remember…
Pamela Micheli Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess
@Patricia yes.. I remember when I woke up this morning. Lol. It was driving me crazy that I couldn’t remember.
@Pamela I hate that. Generally comes to you at 3am.
Ken Bruen (who was kind enough to write an endorsement for my first novel – my little claim to fame), Louise Phillips, Tana French, Benjamin Black, Patricia Gibney, Derek Burke, Jane Casey, Andrea Carter – they’re all favourites but there are so many more!! I review fiction for Crimesquad and get sent so many novels from up and coming authors.
And definitely Jo Spain. I think the Confession is really good on the ugly death of the Celtic Tiger.
Brian McGilloway is very good. Also Adrian McKinty, Jo Spain and Sinead Crowley
Louise Phillips,
@Adele, Olivia Kiernan & @Kevin
Graham Norton The keeper it’s great
Not crime but set in Ireland: Colm Toibin, John Banville, William Trevor early Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright, Brian Moore, especially I Am Mry Dunne and The lOnely passion of Judith Hearne. You are in for a treat 🙂
Kevin @Kevin and Patricia Gibney
Kevin Barry. City of Bohane.
Not crime related but I love the books by John Boyne ☺️
Sinead Crowley
Karen Perry
https://ew.com/books/irish-authors/