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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2005. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED & DATED 3/20/05 by the author at title page. The third Gallway-set novel featuring Jack Taylor. Jack is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 2005. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. The third Gallway-set novel featuring Jack Taylor. Jack is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Scribner, 1978. 2nd edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Very difficult title to find not ex-lb and in good condition. Irish detective McGarr goes up against the IRA when the body of a girl is found near Shannon Airport, a girl whose trail leads from Ireland to New York, and back again to Ireland. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Norton, 1990. 1st American edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light soiling at page edge else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. This political thriller set in Ireland was a bestseller there and caused some apprehension in political circles. "Early one winter morning a mysterious gunman kills a dog on a quay; hours later the drowned corpse of a prominent young politician is fished out of the harbor. A reporter, his marriage a wreck and his career a shambles, believe there's a connection between the two events. His investigations lead to revelations that shatter personal reputations and threaten to topple the government. This may sound like another concoction of formula American political suspense fiction, but actually it's refreshingly different. It is set in contemporary Ireland and peopled with sharply drawn characters ranging from parliamentarians to shady businessmen to IRA operatives. This is… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st ed. fine in dj. In the fourth Brian McKenna mystery, McKenna winds up tracking a suspected terrorist to Iceland, to Ireland, and back to the Big Apple in a race to prevent the bombing of the St. Patrick's Day Parade.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1982. First edition, so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly soiled, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. A Pete Riordan mystery which has him trying to trace down an IRA leader who is trying to buy guns in the USA.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1997. 1st. American edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "This is a novel of brutal, gory serial murder set amid the sectarian violence of northern Ireland. DCI Cross of the Belfast police, a Catholic British man married to a Protestant Irish woman, is an inspector investigating homicide cases. The hit-and-run death of a man--smashed beyond recognition but found to have been already dead--leads Cross into a world of religious hatred and fanaticism, of both IRA and Protestant terrorism. Set in 1985, the novel, often switches back in time to 1972, where we see a young man developing the knowledge that he was born to be a hired killer. The moral landscape is full of deception and treachery, and just when you think you know what somebody stands for, you find it's all a lie...." Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st ed, a fine copy of the advanced uncopyedited edition due out in January, 2013. 368 pages. Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within a few days, and Minister for Justice Charles Haughey wants the killing to end lest a shameful secret be exposed: the dead men were all Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government in the years following World War II. A note from the killers is found on the dead German's corpse, addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite commando, once called the most dangerous man in Europe. The note simply says: "We are coming for you." As Albert Ryan digs deeper into the case he discovers a network of former Nazis and collaborators, all presided over by Skorzeny from his country… Leer más

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st ed, Advance Uncopyedited edition (due in January 2013). Set in 1963 dublin on the eve of JFK's historic visit to Ireland.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: McKay-Washburn, 1975. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with just a slight trace of soiling. A wonderful Irish comedy of murder, mayhem and misadventure. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, one small crease. The second Sister Fidelma mystery. Wighard, archbishop designate of Canterbury, has been discovered garotted in his chambers in the Lateran Palace in Rome in the autumn of AD664. Sister Fidelma investigates. Set in early medieval Ireland. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1983. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, a light nick at top corner, with protective mylar cover. Lovejoy, stabbed in church, is rescued from a case of false arrest by a mysterious, wealthy woman who wants him to authenticate an antique. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Constable, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Not remaindered as many copies are. Dublin-born Canadian author's second novel of murder featuring Sergeant Matt Minogue of the Dublin Gardai. ELLIS Award Nominee.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: William Morrow & Co, 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and a CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. A superbly woven tale of suspense from award winning playright Declan Hughes and introducing PI Ed Loy . Loy returns to Ireland from California to bury his mother and lands himself in a knotty thicket of iniquity, as the Irish real-estate boom unearths old corpses and creates a few new ones. Retained by a profligate lady friend to find her missing husband, Loy wades into the labyrinthine dealings of two conspicuous families, the land--developing Dawsons and the drug-dealing Halligans, who may have more in common than either would like to admit. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.