Johnbradysbooks: 11 books

The body on the beach was that of a young man. he had been shot in the head at close range. Professionally.    In the third of the Inspector Minogue series, a body washed up on a beach is the son of a prominent Irish family – but there is a catch: ‘He’s one of our own all right, but...

A young woman wants her share of the good life - but at what cost?    The fifth Inspector Minogue novel begins on Dublin’s Grand Canal. Long a favoured place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll, the canal banks have become a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. Waters that...

A homeless man is beaten to death in a park. In today's crisis-ridden, Darwinian Ireland,  does no-one care?    The miracle of Celtic Tiger Ireland has imploded but something stirs in the rubble and seizes the attention of a weary public: Pádraig Larkin, a homeless, mentally...

A copper learns he has been living a lie: the past returns with a vengeance.     In this eight novel in the series, Inspector Minogue is trying to keep up with a Celtic Tiger Ireland that’s racing to the future. But as the saying goes, the past isn’t dead: it’s not even past. ...

A screenwriter wants gritty and researches Dublin’s violent criminals. How deep is too deep for his research?   Ireland's Hundred Thousand Welcomes continues to draw immigrants to its faltering Celtic Tiger economy. For those hundreds of thousands of Poles - Catholic, hard-working, white...

A student’s murder in the grounds of Dublin’s famous Trinity College brings out Ireland’s darker secrets.    In this first of the ten-book Inspector Matt Minogue series, a brutal murder in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin sparks a police investigation with unexpected consequences...

The murder of a tourist a decade ago has left open wounds. When an outsider begins to question the past, it changes everything.    The fourth Inspector Minogue mystery opens on a drizzly October in Dublin: Minogue is daydreaming of Greece’s blue skies. His plans for a trip there are suddenly...

Booming Celtic Tiger ireland is a magnet for the world - and for ruthless crime syndicates.    In the seventh in the Minogue series, Dublin is roaring, spinning and racing full throttle to the future. The tiger economy sends seismic shocks through every level of society. The din of construction...

A harmless English ex-pat retiree is strangled in his rural cottage.  In this second of the Inspector Minogue series, Arthur Combs is found murdered, the life choked out of him by a rope around his neck and a knee between his shoulder-blades. The method is obvious, but the motive is far less evident....

For centuries, the remote valleys of southern Austria have seen their smugglers, their hunters and their wars. Two bodies in the forest show that an old order lives on. It has been a long winter here in the hills of southern Austria.  Inspektor Felix Kimmel, officer...