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Abandoned by her father and neglected by her self-centered, unstable mother, Sheila McGee cannot wait to escape the drudgery of her mill village life in Northern Ireland. Her classic Irish beauty helps her win the 1941 Linen Queen competition, and the prize money that goes with it finally gives her the opportunity she's been dreaming of. But Sheila does not count on the impact of the Belfast blitz which brings World War II to her doorstep. Now even...
3) True witness
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A teenage boy is beaten to death on Dimmock's derelict pier. Detective Jack Deacon is convinced they have the murderer; he just needs a positive identification to lock him up for good. But the only witness is astronomer Daniel Hood, in his own way a man as determined as Jack.
Compelling as the circumstantial evidence is against the suspected killer, Daniel cannot be certain that this was the man he saw from his window. Nothing anybody says - or does...
4) Collusion
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Soho Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Detective Inspector Jack Lennon, trying to find a killer stalking Belfast on behalf of a vengeance-driven old man, learns that his ex-lover Marie McKenna and their daughter are caught up in the conspiracy, and in a desperate attempt to keep them safe, he teams up with highly trained killer Gerry Fegan, crossing the line between personal and professional.
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Soho
Pub. Date
2009
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Fegan, an IRA killer who served twelve years in Ireland's Maze Prison, discovers love at an inopportune moment in his life, and while the ghosts of his innocent victims demand appeasement--forcing Fegan to find and kill the men who called for their murders--Fegan works to keep his leading lady and her young daughter safe from harm.
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Follows the young narrator's childhood in Northern Ireland during the 1950s as he learns about the pain and ambiguity that come with maturity and as he becomes aware of the corruption of power in his own family and society.
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Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne, lured back to the Agency after his father-in-law, ex-Senator Douglas Cannon, is nominated to be the American ambassador to London, discovers a plot to disrupt the peace of Northern Ireland that involves the assassination of Cannon.
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A beautiful and deeply felt coming-of-age novel that follows one young man's struggles with family secrets and the mysteries of his own heart in 1960s Northern Ireland.
Gabriel Harkin is the eldest of four children in a working-class family in 1960s Northern Ireland, struggling through a loving, if often brutal, childhood. In the staunchly Catholic community to which Gabriel belongs, the strict rules for belief and behavior are clear. But his upbringing...
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Randy Lee Eickhoff is one of today's most treasured Irish-American scholar/authors. His translations of the Irish national epics The Raid and The Feast have won him praise as a poet and historian while his books on famous figures from America's past-Bowie and The Fourth Horseman show his talents as a storyteller.
Tom Fallon is an ex-IRA assassin who is drawn back into the movement in an attempt to stop drugs from being shipped into Ireland. But,...
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HarperCollins
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c2008
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When mobile librarian Israel Armstrong's library-on-wheels is stolen at an annual library convention in London, he sets out with his irascible companion Ted Carson to find it. Their search leads them to a suspicious convoy of New Age travelers.
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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An ex-con must save Northern Ireland from a violent cabal, before the nation is plunged into chaos Former IRA operative Martin Fallon has survived prison, the bottle, and a police pursuit that sent him running the length and breadth of Ireland. As Fallon turns forty years old, the IRA needs his help again, this time to break Patrick Rogan, the leader of IRA Ulster, out of prison before he is executed. But not all is as it seems. When a newly freed...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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An ex-IRA soldier must save a priest targeted for elimination to gain absolution for his violent past. Everyone has demons to overcome, but Martin Fallon has more than most. A ruthless hitman and executioner for the IRA, Fallon is haunted by a mistake that led to the explosion of a school bus full of children. When he's threatened by the sadistic Meehan brothers, Fallon must agree to one last hit. But this time there's a witness: a priest named Father...
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: An unhappy marriage is further shaken when IRA terrorists invade the couple's home in this "first rate" thriller ( The New York Times ). Michael Dillon, a self-described "poet in a business suit," is a once-aspiring writer in Belfast whose dreams have been consumed by a stultifying career as a hotel manager and a hateful marriage to his unstable wife, Moira. But on the day he decides to leave Moira for his younger...
16) The Savage Day
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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English
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A desperate man goes up against the IRA to buy his freedom in this heart-racing thriller from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. After surviving the war in Korea, Simon Vaughan decided the only loyalty he had was to the man in the mirror. For a while, the high-risk job of arms dealing seemed to be just the life for him. Too bad the Greek authorities didn't see it that way when they tossed him in prison. But now he's gotten...
17) Belfast Noir
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Akashic
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Atmospheric, all-new crime fiction set in this Northern Ireland city -- from Lee Child, Arlene Hunt, Steve Cavanagh, Gerard Brennan, and more. During the decades of the Troubles, Belfast was plagued with riots, bombings, and other violence, and armored vehicles patrolled the streets -- a daily darkness that is reflected in the personality of the city. New York Times -bestselling author Lee Child calls it "the most noir place on earth." This collection...
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