Recent Crime Fiction from Ireland!
No 487 The Last Girl by Jane Casey
The Last Girl is the third in Jane Casey’s popular and critically acclaimed Maeve Kerrigan series, with the most recent installment, The Cutting Place, just published. While the books can be read out of order, I would advise starting at the beginning, because one of the pleasures of this series is seeing the relationships between…
Reading Ireland Month Round Up!
So there we have it. The inaugural Reading Ireland Month/ Begorrathon is over and what a great month it has been! With over 100 blog posts, an array of writers, poets, musicians and movies were explored. I read 10 books by Irish authors out of my 746 and discovered many, many more writers I would…
No 687 The Likeness by Tana French
In Ireland, we have the myth of the changeling – a fairy child who has been secretly left in the place of a human child. The changeling would be identical to the person it was replacing and it was said that the changeling was often an enchanted piece of wood that would grow sick and…
The Irish Crime Week Giveaway!
Following the Roddy Doyle giveaway last week (which was won by Col at The Only Way is Reading), this week I have a crime related prize up for grabs! As I’m going to be spending the week reading and reviewing Irish Crime Fiction, I’m offering one lucky winner signed copies of Eoin McNamee’s…
The Irresistible Rise of Irish Crime Fiction
When asked why he chose to set his first crime novel in the US, Irish writer John Connolly said, ‘Because in Ireland everybody would’ve known who done it within days.’ Exaggeration aside, in the pre-Celtic Tiger landscape of Ireland, this may well have been the case, but it certainly isn’t nowadays as Irish crime fiction…
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