Irish crime fiction

A gazetteer of British crime: The Irish Republic

By DavidPrestidge

1 June, 2016

Welcome to the eighth edition of our gazetteer – e’re half way through our journey around crime fiction locations in the British Isles. After a brief stopover to rest our weary feet, our boots are on again, and we are ready to seek out more regional…

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Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard

By DavidPrestidge

27 April, 2016

Written by Catherine Ryan Howard — Some books arrive at CFL HQ in a standard padded envelope. Others appear dressed to the nines, and that’s how Distress Signals first arrived with its custom wrapping paper, tied with a ribbon. Have a look here. Does it live…

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With Our Blessing by Jo Spain

By DeathBecomesHer

13 September, 2015

Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, and the abuse that occurred inside them, has been well documented over recent years. Now it serves the background for the debut novel by journalist Jo Spain. It is a subject close to the author’s heart as her father was born in…

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Preserve the Dead by Brian McGilloway

By Keith Nixon

9 September, 2015

Detective Sergeant Lucy Black of the Derry police force leads a full and complex life. Her father is suffering the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and has been badly beaten by another inmate at the secure unit he’s currently in. But before she can complain…

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Barlow by the Book by John McAllister

By DavidPrestidge

3 August, 2015

John Barlow is the Royal Ulster Constabulary Station Sergeant in Ballymena, County Antrim. It’s 1960 and he is both respected and feared, depending on which part of Ballymena society you come from. Petty crooks fear his policing skills and intuition, but respect his fairness. Up-and-coming…

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Aloysius Tempo by Jason Johnson

By DavidPrestidge

27 July, 2015

Aloysius Tempo was brought up hard. His mother, uncertain of which side of the Irish political divide his father came from, abandoned him a few days after his birth. She left him beside a stream, his cradle a plastic beer crate. From that inauspicious entry…

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Harrogate memories 2015

By crimefictionlover

20 July, 2015

The 2015 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival has concluded in Harrogate, and as is the tradition here on Crime Fiction Lover, we’ve invited a guest correspondent to file a report from this very special event. Over the previous three years, we’ve had missives from Stav Sherez,…

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Are You Watching Me by Sinéad Crowley

By DavidPrestidge

1 July, 2015

Liz Cafferkey works at Tír na nÓg in Dublin. In Gaelic it means The Land of The Young, a place in pre-Christian Irish myth. That’s ironic because in reality Tír na nÓg is a shabby drop-in centre for elderly men. They serve cups of tea…

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A gazetteer of British crime: The Irish Republic

Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard

With Our Blessing by Jo Spain

Preserve the Dead by Brian McGilloway

Barlow by the Book by John McAllister

Aloysius Tempo by Jason Johnson

Harrogate memories 2015

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