Irish crime fiction

The Gone: Kiwi/Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

11 March, 2024

While the Irish broadcaster RTÉ may not have the resources of the BBC or HBO, it has canny knack for collaborating with producers in other countries to jointly invest in high-quality crime shows. Hidden Assets was surprisingly good, given the unlikely linkup between an Irish…

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Blood on the Broadcast by SDW Hamilton

By Erin Britton

6 February, 2024

There’s religious strife brewing in Belfast, but it’s not what you might expect. A group known as the Followers of Eden have been operating in and around the city for years, although their power and influence have reached significant heights of late. Led by shadily…

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Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

By DeathBecomesHer

31 January, 2024

Am I the only one who feels mighty old when a book set in 1968 is called historical crime fiction? It’s a label that’s been applied to Where We Lie, by Irish debut author Claire Coughlan and set in Dublin at the end of the…

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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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The Gone: Kiwi/Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

Blood on the Broadcast by SDW Hamilton

Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

Hidden Assets season 2 comes to BBC Four

The Returned by Amanda Cassidy

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

Clean Sweep: The Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

The Lock-Up by John Banville

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