Brian McGilloway

'Moving, beautifully written' The Times 'Heart-breaking. The Nameless Dead is as good a novel of modern Ireland as you're likely to read this year, crime or otherwise' Irish Times ________ 'You can't investigate the baby, Inspector. It's the law.' Declan Cleary's body has never been found, but...

'Heart-stopping' ANN CLEEVES 'Genius' STEVE CAVANAGH 'A triumph' IRISH EXAMINER 'Nail-biting' ANDREA MARA 'Exceptional' JOHN CONNOLLY 'Breathlessly exciting' IRISH INDEPENDENT ------------ Katie lives a quiet life. She likes her small Derry neighbourhood. She likes her job as a barmaid at...

Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle....

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood _________ When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site in what...

'Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut' The Times 'A mystery of labyrinthine complexity' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' The Guardian _______________ The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood Midwinter. A child is found wandering in an ancient...

A young man is found in a riverside park, his head bashed in with a rock. The only clue to his identity is an admission stamp for the local gay club. DS Lucy Black is called in to investigate....

Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2021. Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they'd seen the last of each other 30 years ago. Half a lifetime has passed, and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite—to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the...

Lucy Black must protect the young and vulnerable, but she may not be able to protect herself....

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood ____________ When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he...

How can a dead woman avenge herself on her killer 20 years after her murder? This is the puzzle facing Ben Devlin in his latest case. He is called to the scene of a murder - a man has been stabbed to death in his rented room and when his identity is discovered Devlin feels a ghost walk over...

What do you do when your child disappears? 'A hugely compelling story of loss, grief and vengeance, The Empty Room is probably the best novel yet by one of our finest mystery writers. Unmissable.' John Connolly 'The tension and heartbreak kept me turning the pages' Patricia Gibney 'A searing...

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood _______________ When a controversial US diplomat is attacked during the opening of...