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1) Watchman
Author
Language
English
Description
Miles Flint is a spy whose last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, then to a short stint in jail. Convinced there is a mole in British intelligence, he sets out to find him--only to be waylaid by a routine mission to Belfast that may be his last.
4) No bones
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An irresistible novel brimming with wit, warmth, and Irish humor, about the married owners of a friendly tavern in Belfast and the intimate lives of the customers and employees who band together to save it from demolition. Jack Beaumont and his beautiful wife, Lily, are the owners of the tavern on Maple Street, a tiny Victorian pub they inherited from Jack's great-uncle Ernest. It's a quiet place, untouched by the modern world, and that's why the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Outside an East Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection both intellectual and erotic. When Anna becomes pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout, when it finally comes, is shocking.--from jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do...
11) Ghost moth
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As tensions rise between the Catholic Republicans and the Protestant Loyalists in 1969 Belfast, Katherine, a former actress who is gravely ill, and George, a firefighter, keep secrets from each other in order to save their marriage.
12) Collusion
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover Marie McKenna and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. But now an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Ballantine ed.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A look at life in Northern Ireland through the eyes of two Belfast men who are friends, one Catholic, the other Protestant. The novel shows them coping with the war, with an American girlfriend and with a sudden influx of foreign investors.
14) Dark chapter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a fifteen year old Irish teenager, growing up in a family where crime is customary, violence is necessary, and everything and anyone is yours for the taking. Their paths collide one afternoon in West Belfast, culminating in a horrific act of violence. Vivian tries to recapture the woman she was, as she struggles with...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is owed to preserve his legacy; down-on-her-luck journalist...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut - not even former Provo James 'Ructions' O'Hare. But when word gets around O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions' trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees - known as a "tiger" kidnapping -- in order to...
17) Offcomer
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An honest, affecting work of fiction about a young woman's search for her place in the world, Offcomer is the powerful first novel from the acclaimed author of Longbourn. Against the backdrop of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, recent Oxford graduate Claire is a mess. She's trapped in a disastrous relationship with a young academic, working a dead end job, stunned by the emergence of secrets from her mother's past, and seemingly addicted to self-destructive...
18) Belfast noir
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
250 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lee Child, Eoin McNamee, and others explore the dark corners and alleyways of Belfast.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Christmas approaches. Three sets of people make their way to Amsterdam ... Alan, divorced, travels to Amsterdam to see a Bob Dylan concert - unaware that he will be accompanied by his troubled teenage son, Jack. Karen, a single mother, struggles to give her daughter the best wedding possible, working as a carer and cleaning offices. However, on the plane with her daughter's hen party, she'll question her life of sacrifices. Meanwhile middle-aged couple...
20) Divorcing Jack
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student. And then, terrifyingly, she is murdered. Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself…
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