A nude woman collapsed on my doorstep. Someone I knew somehow. Of course, I carried her in and cared for her. Gave her shelter, clothes, and food to heal. In her normal form, she was one of the most powerful entities on this planet, in all known history. Harpy. But for now, she was simply human. And to regain her strength, she said she needed to make love with me. The weird part was the last time we met, she tried to kill me. And now I had...

Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived. The essays collected here connect their immediate subjects-contemporary Irish crime writers-to Irish culture, literature, and history. Anchored in both canonical and emerging themes,...

The Boomerang MysteryA strange 'whodunit' mystery for the Jay-Pea-Eyes to have as their first case! Three children go missing and police have organised a massive search of the town of Dudleigh and surrounding areas. A phone call from a security officer at Russington Hospital immediately has several Detectives heading for the Accident & Emergency Department. All three missing children have somehow been returned to the Hospital. No-one sees or hears...

The old coven was destroyed and one witch remained, to rule them all. Her power was absolute, and it came from those she vanquished. The last rite to perform was the Dance - where all these powers and their personalities were unified into a single force. Without that core immersion, the powers and personalities would war with each other forever - inside her mind. This had only been attempted once in all known history. And failed, fragmenting all...

The body disappeared, the witnesses forgot their stories. And I had 24 hours to solve the mystery before all the evidence vanished. I had no memory of how this all started. Only that I was brought in to solve a mystery in a single day before I had to move to my next assignment. Because I'm a time-jumper. And I go where I'm sent. Because I'm damned good at figuring things out. You don't have to have a string of degrees behind your name to figure...

Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt are not the only ones who have recently tied the knot. Family friend Mrs. O’Neill was delighted when her daughter Una wed the seemingly wealthy and charming Randolph Pollock. She didn’t wonder why such an affluent man would want to marry a poor Irish girl, no matter how pretty she was. But now Mrs. O’Neill has a problem. Pollock’s servants have found their employer bludgeoned to death with...

Detective Inspector Andy Horton investigates a naval historian's death, which he believes was incorrectly ruled a suicide, and finds that his bosses may be covering up the true circumstances of the man's passing.