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The wild west of Ireland. A lonely farmhouse. A father and son slaughtered in the dead of night. Farmer Pat Nevin and his university-student son, Conor, drive through the quiet rural landscape of County Mayo, heading back to their farmhouse in Mucklagh. It's 3.30 a.m. As they step out of their...

A promising young banker is killed in a Dublin alleyway. Two very different detectives try to find the murderer. A DEADLY DIVIDEND is the first book in a new series of murder mysteries by best-selling author David Pearson, whose other Irish crime fiction has topped the charts. A night out turns...

A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed. It’s a cold winter evening and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an...

A body behind the bar. A family torn apart. A pub where the spirits are as dark as the family's secrets. Everyone in Westport knows the Lynch family. They own its most successful pub, the shoe shop next door, the solicitor's office upstairs and the farm out at Knockfin. So when Michael Lynch...

A burnt-out car on the Mayo coast. A young woman's body inside. Someone wanted her erased. Detective Inspector Martin O'Shea is dragged from his bed before dawn and out to Bertra Beach, where a Toyota Avensis still smolders in the morning heat. The victim is unrecognizable—except for her red...

Two dead bodies in the Dublin mountains. What’s the connection between them? A FATAL LIAISON is the second book in a new series by bestselling Irish crime writer, David Pearson. Look out for others. A man is found in his car, having met a painful death. Another man is found in the woods...

Are detectives right to think that the brutal murder of a pensioner is more than just a burglary gone wrong? A health-worker visiting clients in a remote area on the West Coast of Ireland has a nasty surprise when she finds a reclusive old man dead in his armchair in his tumbledown cottage. When...

Tensions arise between detectives when a kidnapping is upgraded to a murder investigation. When an incompetent local crook makes a botched attempt at a kidnap, it should be a wrap for the Galway police. Unfortunately, Maureen Lyons’ first case in charge as Detective Inspector threatens to be a...

TALES OF NYARLATHOTEP is the fourth book of the Books of Cthulhu series by Crossroad Press (Tales of the Al-Azif, Tales of Yog-Sothoth, The Book of Yig). It is an anthology featuring pulpy tales of horror starring Outer God and his myriad plots as well as games. Nyarlathotep is functionally omnipotent and treats humanity like ants underneath a magnifying glass. He is impossible to kill but perhaps capable of being thwarted. Or maybe that's just what he wants you to think.

A man is found dead after a house fire. Detective Fiona Moore suspects foul play. THE CHINA CHAPTER is the third book in bestselling Irish author David Pearson’s new crime fiction series, The Dublin Homicides. It’s not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law...

Dublin detectives race to track a serial killer targeting care homes. LETHAL IN SMALL DOSES is the fourth crime fiction title in the Dublin Homicides series by David Pearson. When an elderly resident of a care home passes away during the night, little is thought of it. But when a routine...

A body found below a cliff is not what it seems, and a deadly heist is underway in this enjoyable Irish murder mystery. Whilst junior detectives rush to the scene of a potential murder near Roundstone, Connemara, an informant lets on to DCI Mick Hays that a big robbery is about to take place...

Too late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer? It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance of Davin Faherty. But foul play is established when his unceremoniously wrapped corpse...

Irish detectives struggle to make sense of the evidence in this mystery that keeps you guessing. A relaxing sailing trip on his day off becomes anything but for DSI Mick Hays when a body is found at sea. The coastguard pluck the corpse from the ocean with ease, but establishing the dead man’s...

A local businessman’s plane crashes into bogland killing all three occupants… Galway’s detectives investigate. It’s not long before experts establish that the small aircraft’s engine had been tampered with. From dealing with a tragic accident, senior DI Maureen Lyons is suddenly...

A woman is found dead in a local businessman’s holiday let. Detectives uncover some shady dealings. But did he kill her? The charm of a West of Ireland holiday home is somewhat tarnished when a woman’s body is found in the property. There are few clues as to her identity. However, in her...

Murder on the beach, kidnap on the moor. DI Maureen Lyons investigates. It is with a certain trepidation that the local garda approach a car stuck out on Ballyconneely Beach gradually becoming swamped by the rising tide. And the police’s worst fears are confirmed when they find it contains the...

Irish detectives Maureen Lyons and Mick Hays face one of their hardest cases yet… When a successful bookmaker is robbed and killed during the annual Galway Races, the motive seems clear. But when the money turns up untouched, more questions are raised than answered. Top Brass want the case...

Set in the beautiful surroundings of the west coast of Ireland, MURDER AT THE PONY SHOW is a cosy police procedural the whole family can enjoy. The discovery of a man’s body puts a damper on the annual Connemara Pony Show. DI Maureen Lyons investigates a difficult case of foul play. The show...

Hastur was not a creation of H.P. Lovecraft but an adaptation of concepts created by Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers. Nevertheless, Hastur, AKA The King in Yellow, has since gone on to become one of the most iconic Great Old Ones. Whether the mysterious Lord of Leng in the Dreamlands or Cthulhu’s alleged half-brother, he is a figure who haunts the dreams of those mortals who touch upon even the barest knowledge of his existence.