APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY IRISH DETECTIVE SERIES Vincent Banville. Private detective John Blaine series, set in Dublin (series premieres 1993): Death by Design , Death the Pale Rider , Sad Song , Cannon Law , An Accident Waiting to Happen . Alex Barclay. Joe Lucchesi series (2005): Darkhouse , The Caller . FBI Ren Bryce series (2008): Blood Runs Cold , Time of Death , Blood Loss , Harm ’ s Reach , Killing Ways . Colin Bateman. Private detective Dan Starkey series (1995): Divorcing Jack , Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men , Turbulent Priests , Shooting Sean , The Horse with My Name , Driving Big Davie , Belfast Confi dential , Nine Inches , Fire and Brimstone , The Dead Pass . Police detective Jimmie Murphy series, set in London (2002): Murphy ’ s Law , Murphy ’ s Revenge . Mystery Man series, set in Belfast (2009): Mystery Man , The Day of the Jack Russell , Dr. Yes , The Prisoner of Brenda . Benjamin Black (John Banville). Pathologist Quirke series, set in 1950s Dublin (2006): Christine Falls , The Silver Swan , The Lemur , Elegy for April , A Death in Summer , Vengeance , Holy Orders . Philip Marlowe reboot for the Raymond Chandler estate. Ingrid Black (Eilis O’Hanlon and Ian McConnel). Saxon and Fitzgerald (2003): The Dead , The Dark Eye , The Judas Heart , Circle of the Dead . Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin). Molly Murphy series set in fi n - de - siècle New York City (2001): Murphy ’ s Law , Death of Riley , For the Love of Mike , In Like Flynn , Oh Danny Boy , In Dublin ’ s Fair City , Tell Me , © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 149 E. Mannion (ed.), The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53940-3 150 APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY IRISH DETECTIVE SERIES Pretty Maiden , In a Gilded Cage , The Last Illusion , Bless the Bride , Hush Now , Don ’ t You Cry , The Family Way , City of Darkness and Light , The Edge of Dreams , Time of Fog and Fire . Conor Brady. Detective Sgt. Joe Swallow series, set in 1880s Dublin (2012): A June of Ordinary Murders , The Eloquence of the Dead . John Brady. Inspector Sgt. Matt Minogue series, set in Dublin (2002): A Stone of the Heart , Unholy Ground , Kaddish in Dublin , All Souls , The Good Life , A Carra King , Wonderland , Islandbridge , Going Rate , The Coast Road . Ken Bruen. Private investigator Jack Taylor series, set in Galway (2001): The Guards , The Killing of the Tinkers , The Magdalen Martyrs , The Dramatist , Priest , Cross , Sanctuary , The Devil , Headstone , Purgatory , Green Hell . The Brant-Roberts series (1998): A White Arrest , Taming the Alien , The McDead , Blitz , Vixen , Calibre , Ammunition . The Fisher- Petrakos series (2006): Bust , Slide , The Max . Declan Burke. Harry Rigby series, set in Sligo (2003): Eightball Boogie , Slaughter ’ s Hound . Jane Casey. Det. Constable Maeve Kerrigan series, set in London (2010): The Burning , The Reckoning , The Last Girl , The Stranger You Know , Left for Dead (e-novella), The Kill , After the Fire . Paul Charles. Det. Inspector Christy Kennedy series, set in London (1997): Last Boat to Camden Town , I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass , Fountain of Sorrow , The Ballad of Sean and Wilko , The Hissing of the Silent Lonely Room , I ’ ve Heard the Banshee Sing , The Justice Factory , Sweetwater , The Beautiful Sound of Silence , A Pleasure to Do Death with You . Inspector Starrett series, set in Donegal (2007): The Dust of Death , Family Life . John Connolly. Private detective Charlie Parker series, set in the United States (1999): Every Dead Thing , Dark Hollow , The Killing Kind , The White Road , The Refl ecting Eye (novella), The Black Angel , The Unquiet , The Reapers , The Lovers , The Whisperers , The Burning Soul , The Wrath of Angels , The Wolf in Winter , A Song of Shadows . John Creed (Eoin McNamee). Intelligence Offi cer Jack Valentine series, set in Northern Ireland and elsewhere (2002): The Sirius Crossing , The Day of the Dead , Black Cat Black Dog . Ruth Dudley Edwards. The Robert Amiss Mysteries, set in London and elsewhere (1981): Corridors of Death , The St. Valentine ’ s Day Murders , The English School of Murder , Clubbed to Death , Matricide at St. Martha ’ s . The Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mysteries: Ten Lords A - Leaping , Murder in a Cathedral , Publish and Be Murdered , The APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY IRISH DETECTIVE SERIES 151 Anglo - Irish Murders , Carnage on the Committee , Murdering Americans , Killing the Emperors . Tana French. Dublin Murder Squad (2007): In the Woods , The Likeness , Faithful Place , Broken Harbour , The Secret Place . Cora Harrison. The Burren mysteries, featuring Brehon detective Mara, set in medieval Ireland (2007). My Lady Judge , Michaelmas Tribute , Sting of Justice , Writ in Stone , Eye of the Law , Scales of Retribution , Deed of Murder , Laws in Confl ict , Chain of Evidence , Cross of Vengence , Verdict of the Court , Condemned to Death . Erin Hart. Nora Gavin–Cormac Maguire series, set in Galway (2005): Haunted Ground , Lake of Sorrows , False Mermaid , The Book of Killowen . Declan Hughes. Private investigator Ed Loy series, set in Dublin and Los Angeles (2006): The Wrong Kind of Blood , The Colour of Blood , The Price of Blood , All the Dead Voices , City of Lost Girls . Arlene Hunt. QuicK Investigations series, set in Dublin (2005): False Intentions , Black Sheep , Missing Presumed Dead , Undertow , Blood Money . Jim Lusby. DI Carl McCadden series, set in Waterford (1995): Making the Cut , Flashback , Kneeling at the Altar . Kevin McCarthy. Sgt. Sean O’Keefe series, set in 1920s Dublin (2010): Peeler , Irregulars . Eugene McEldowney. The Superintendent Cecil Megarry series, set in Belfast (1994): A Kind of Homecoming , A Stone of the Heart , The Sad Case of Harpo Higgins . Brian McGilloway. Inspector Benedict Devlin series, set in the borderlands (2007): Borderlands , Gallows Lane , Bleed a River Deep , The Rising , The Nameless Dead . Detective Sgt. Lucy Black series, set in the borderlands (2011): Little Girl Lost , Hurt / Someone You Know , Preserve the Dead . Claire McGowan. Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire series, set in the borderlands (2013): The Lost , The Dead Ground . Adrian McKinty. Michael Forsythe trilogy (2003): Dead I Well May Be , The Dead Yard , The Bloomsday Dead . Det. Sean Duffy trilogy, set in Northern Ireland (2012): The Cold , Cold Ground , I Hear the Sirens in the Street , In the Morning I ’ ll Be Gone , Gun Street Girl . Cormac Millar. Seamus Joyce series, set in Dublin (2004): An Irish Solution , The Grounds . Sam Millar. Private investigator Karl Kane series, set in Dublin (2008): Bloodstorm , The Dark Place , Dead of Winter . Stuart Neville. Jack Lennon series, set in Belfast (2009): The Twelve / Ghosts of Belfast , Collusion , Stolen Souls , The Final Silence . 152 APPENDIX: CONTEMPORARY IRISH DETECTIVE SERIES Eilís Ní Dhuibhne. Saoirse Ní Ghallchóir and Garda Máirtín Ó Flaithearta series, set in Kerry (2000): Dúnmharú sa Daingean ( Murder in Dingle ), Dún an Airgid ( Close Money ). Niamh O’Connor. Police detective Jo Birmingham series, set in Dublin (2010): If I Never See You Again , Taken , Too Close for Comfort , Blink . Julie Parsons. Inspector Michael McLoughlin series, set in Dublin (1998): Mary , Mary , I Saw You . Louise Phillips. Criminal psychologist Dr. Kate Pearson series, set in Dublin (2012): Red Ribbons , The Doll ’ s House , Last Kiss . Michael Russell. Det. Inspector Stefan Gillespie series, set in 1930s–1940s Dublin environs and other war-torn cities (2012): The City of Shadows , The City of Strangers , The City in Darkness . Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis). Sister Fidelma series, set in seventh- century Ireland (1994): Absolution by Murder , Shroud for the Archbishop , Suffer Little Children , The Subtle Serpent , The Spider ’ s Web , Valley of the Shadow , The Monk Who Vanished , Act of Mercy , Our Lady of Darkness , Hemlock at Vespers (short stories), Smoke in the Wind, The Haunted Abbot , Badger ’ s Moon , Whispers of the Dead (short stories), The Leper ’ s Bell , Master of Souls , A Prayer for the Damned , Dancing with Demons , The Council of the Cursed , The Dove of Death , The Chalice of Blood , Behold A Pale Horse , The Seventh Trumpet , Atonement of Blood , The Devil ’ s Seal , The Second Death , The Second Death . BIBLIOGRAPHY Ashley, Mike. ‘Seeking the Evidence.’ The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams. 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