Unholy Ground: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery

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BRADY, JOHN

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Kaddish in Dublin: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery

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A Carra King: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery (The Inspector Matt Minogue)

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 rings out over the crush of traffic, while crowds spill into streets, alight with the glitter of high-end restaurants and the glare of night clubs. But Dublin's gangland bares its teeth. There is the brazen, vicious double murder of two Albanians. A Dublin crime boss is feuding with the Belfast politicos who helped put him at the top of Ireland's drug smuggling industry. Now a teenager lies dead of an overdose in a park in a swanky Dublin suburb. Enter Matt Minogue and the Murder Squad. Minogue is distracted however, wrestling with his conscience over a suspect he was interviewing who has just killed herself. Surveying the transformations around him, he can’t shake a feeling that everything is coming apart. His adopted city is also a place of wealth and runaway heroin addiction, of movie and rock idols and gangster chic. We’re not in Dublin or even Ireland now: we’re in Wonderland. 'If there are authors better at chronicling the events of modern Ireland, I haven't yet read them.' - Globe and Mail (Canada)

Wonderland: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery

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. Dublin then November late 1980s sees Garda Declan Kelly working his last off-duty shift outside a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder. Spared a bullet in the back of the head, he is snared instead by a crime family and forced into an impossible position. His suicide note to his pregnant wife brings her overpowering rage as well as grief. It also gives her a thirst for revenge on all who let her husband down - including the Guards themselves. Her husband had asked for help from his Sergeant. The reply was a cold demand to turn himself in, as a criminal. Dublin now From a jittery addict, Minogue hears that a crime syndicate has had an insider copper - a senior, ranking Garda officer - for many years. Is this a ruse? Probing further, he runs up against a disturbing link between a trafficked Moldovan girl. Also, there are rumblings of a feud between Irish crime families and Eastern European gangsters too. Trawling the pubs and club, Minogue comes in contact with a prostitution racket run by an affable, accented 'George.' A chase down the teeming lanes and streets of central Dublin ends in a violent clash between police and criminals, and between the present and the past. 'Brady's novels featuring Matt Minogue are brilliant and melodic. Now comes Islandbridge, which is even better. Brady takes his talent to new heights, and this is sure to be one of the top books of the year. Must reading.' - Globe and Mail 'Particularly powerful stuff - genius.' -Toronto Star

Islandbridge: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery

A screenwriter needs to research Dublin’s violent criminals, but falls prey to gangster chic. 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 and like the Irish, survivors of an overbearing neighbour - Ireland works. But the Tiger devours too. Barely a week in Ireland. 20-year-old Tadeusz Klos lies in a coma on a rainswept Dublin street. He will not survive. This murder is a tipping point. Gang violence has made Dublin’s streets a battleground. Media outrage in Poland and Ireland push the Gardaí to come up with answers. Should the fabled specialist Murder Squad really have been disbanded three years ago? Minogue is suddenly in demand. ‘Whatever you need’ he is told. With the Polish embassy pressing for answers, Garda brass passes on the pressure to Minogue. Yet Minogue’s arrival is already resented in the city Garda station into which he has been parachuted. With little to go on, Minogue soon forms a picture of a chance event: bad timing, a swarm of drunken youths, racist impulses finding an outlet. Hecontinues to call in favours, and slowly that picture begins to cloud and turn to a different story entirely. Tadeusz Klos was no angel either. He was involved in petty crime back in Poland. Ready or not, Minogue is about to drop down a crevasse into Dublin’s underworld. Not far from the busy world-class shopping and the crowded nightclubs, is where drug lords and their hired killers rule. ‘The Celtic boom may have busted but it has left behind the crime that comes with prosperity. There are no happy endings with John Brady, no pulled punches. There is justice, and heartbreak, and the knowledge that the streets will be just as dirty and dangerous tomorrow.’ - National Post (Canada)

The Going Rate: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery (The Inspector Matt Minogue Series)

In a park in leafy Dubin suburb, a homeless man is beaten to death. 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 ill alcoholic, is beaten to death in a park. Public indignation rises as the case remains unsolved. Is there no justice for an outcast in today’s Ireland ? Minogue and the volatile Tommy Malone are put on the case. Neither copper is happy: this move is insider influence at work. Sister Immaculata, the well-known and outspoken nun, has complained to the Garda Commissioner that this unsolved murder case is an insult to the victim, an indictment of Irish society. Was Pádraig Larkin simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, a victim of feral youths? A furious reaction to voyeurism? Witness to a drug deal? And one of his fellow down-and-outs is delusional and prone to violence... Minogue soon senses that Larkin’s past is gaining on the present. Their collision will come with all the force of truths held back so bitterly and for so long. 'Particularly powerful stuff – genius.’ - Toronto Star 'Eerily prescient, with an up-to-the-minute view of Ireland’s financial meltdown. One of Brady’s best plots, along with his always-fine characters and stellar Dublin setting. Not to be missed.’ - Globe and Mail (Canada)

The Coast Road: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery (The Inspector Matt Minogue)

Ireland may be reeling from the shocks of the financial crash, but Dublin’s still a small place. The wife of a jailed criminal godfather is frantic: her only surviving son Gary is missing. Bernie Cummins can’t trust that the Guards will search for him. She turns to her childhood friend for help - Sheila Malone, Sergeant Tommy Malone’s Ma. These women’s loyalties run deep and wide and long. And with Bernie Cummins facing cancer, Sheila won’t let her down. In a meet with Bernie’s infamous husband Tony, Malone gets a coded signal that a deal can be done. A huge coup for the police? Maybe. But they, no more than Malone, foresee that the collision of crime and loyalty will bring the deaths of innocents and tear a good man down.

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