Dervla McTiernan

Flynn was only a teenager when her parents were killed in a terrible accident. Too young to lose her parents, too young to take on responsibility for her younger sister Kaiya, too young to protect Kaiya from the harshness of their new lives in the following years....

'With her third novel Dervla McTiernan confirms she's a born storyteller' Val McDermid The unputdownable no.1 bestseller from the author of The Ruin and The Scholar. Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected events...

No one is innocent in this story ... The unmissable no.1 bestselling New York Times thriller of the year First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and...

The Top Ten fiction bestseller and critically acclaimed crime debut featuring everyone's favourite new detective, Cormac Reilly 'The Ruin is spectacularly good. So CONFIDENT ... excellently written and, at times, heartachingly sad' Marian Keyes 'Corruption, clandestine cover-ups and criminal...

Every grave has a story ... The much-anticipated new novel in the Cormac Reilly series, from the no.1 bestselling author of The Ruin and What Happened to Nina. Shortlisted for General Fiction Book of the Year at the ABIA's 2026 Shortlisted for the Audiobook of the Year at the ABIA's 2026...

In this prequel to the international best seller The Ruin, set 10 years prior, bright-eyed Carrie Ryan is at the very start of her career...

Twenty-two-year-old Niamh Turley thought she had problems dealing with the obnoxious principal of the school she’s teaching in, but when she wakes one morning to a missing roommate and a garda knocking on her door, her life spirals out of control fast....

In this new novella from the number one internationally best-selling author of The Sisters and The Murder Rule, Dervla McTiernan, a mother and son fighting to prove her innocence are reunited with an estranged friend—a detective who may hold the key to her freedom....

'Dervla McTiernan has rocked the crime fiction world with good reason. Taut, tense and darkly addictive. A treat for lovers of fine crime writing.' - Candice Fox Being brilliant has never been this dangerous ... When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other. 'Addictive. Propulsive. Dervla McTiernan is a thriller master.' Trent Dalton Winner of the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year 2025 Winner of the...

Als Detective Inspector Cormac Reilly ans Telefon geht, glaubt er noch, seine Freundin wolle den gemeinsamen Abend planen. Doch zu seiner Überraschung ruft Emma ihn zu einem Tatort. Sie hat eine Studentin tot aufgefunden, offenbar überfahren.

Während seiner ersten Wochen als junger Detective wird Cormac Reilly zu einem heruntergekommenen Landhaus gerufen. Dort findet er zwei stille, vernachlässigte Kinder vor – die 15-jährige Maude und den 5-jährigen Jack. Ihre Mutter liegt tot und der Verwesung nahe im ersten Stock.