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Hidden Assets season 2 comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover
29 November, 2023
Last January, the crime show Hidden Assets was a surprise hit when it aired on BBC Four in the UK. Jointly made by Irish and Belgian production companies, it linked a criminal assets recovery investigator in Shannon with missing diamonds and a bombing in Antwerp,…
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The Returned by Amanda Cassidy

By DeathBecomesHer
25 September, 2023
Irish author Amanda Cassidy is a freelance journalist and former Sky News reporter, and she certainly knows how to pull her readers into a story from the get-go. It’s the week before Christmas when a fire breaks out at the Wills family home in County…
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The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

By Paul Burke
8 August, 2023
The Irish author Catherine Ryan Howard won the Irish Book Award in the crime fiction category in 2021 for her novel 56 Days. One of the first books in the genre to really countenance the COVID pandemic, it was a nerve-tingling thriller exploring the intensity…
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Clean Sweep: The Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover
26 July, 2023
Back in January we reported on North Sea Connection, which turned out to be one of the most popular crime shows we’ve written about so far this year. If you loved that Irish production, then Clean Sweep might also hold you in its thrall. Arriving…
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The Lock-Up by John Banville

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
25 May, 2023
Detective Inspector Strafford and Doctor Quirke return in The Lock-Up, the third instalment of John Banville’s crime duo series. The story picks up where April in Spain finished and deals with the murder of a young Jewish woman, Rosa Jacobs, in Dublin in the 1950s….
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Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

By Vicki Weisfeld
3 March, 2023
Yes, the eponymous protagonist of Liz Nugent’s new crime mystery, Strange Sally Diamond, is strange. And for good reason. Sally lives a mile outside a small village in Ireland’s sparsely populated County Roscommon. Alone with her father since her mother died several years earlier, Sally…
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Irish crime drama North Sea Connection comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover
30 January, 2023
The highly-rated RTÉ crime show North Sea Connection is coming to BBC Four in the UK, with the first two episodes airing from 9pm on Saturday 4 February. It’s an ideal series to take in if you enjoy perilous plot lines set in moody, isolated…
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Göering’s Gold by Richard O’Rawe

By Paul Burke
1 June, 2022
This wry caper from Irish author Richard O’Rawe proves that an old fashioned adventure story, well told, can still grip and thrill us. Göering’s Gold is essentially a treasure hunt – funny and dark by turns, its sharp pacing and clever twists are very appealing….
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