New York: Viking, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel in the award-winning Murder Squad series, set in Dublin. This features detective Frank Mackey. A compelling and unusual mystery series, highly recommended. 400 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021871.

New York: Viking, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Novel in the award-winning Murder Squad series, set in Dublin. This features detective Antoinette Conway. A compelling and unusual mystery series, highly recommended. 449 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021871.

New York: Harper & Row, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - A summer festival designed to re-enact the days of the Irish kings who ruled from Tara becomes a time of deadly terror for an archeologist and his family, when his two sons stumble upon a dangerous discovery. 170 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr mystery. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-688-141838.

New York: Morrow, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Peter McGarr mystery. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977982.

New York: Hyperion, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which recreates the life of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce. In her twenties she was institutionalized and spent the remainder of her adult life in mental hospitals; after the outbreak of World War II, she never saw her parents again. James Joyce continually insisted his daughter was clairvoyant, not mentally ill. 158 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9866.

New York: Dutton, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the story of the "ladies of Llangollen"- two well-born eighteenth century Irish women who defied convention and eloped as a married couple. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242635.

New York: SeaStar, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A retelling of a traditional Irish tale set in the mid-1800s, illustrated by Hague in appropriately somber tones. After a young girl "steps on a newly filled grave, the dead man forces her to care for him by preparing oatmeal mixed with freshly drawn human blood. By pretending to eat her share while secreting it away in her scarf, she provides the means of reviving the young men whose blood she has drawn." Unpaginated. ISBN: 1-587170590.

Auroro CO: Write Way Publishing, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Ireland, featuring Irish-American Danny O'Flaherty who is living and working as a teacher in Dublin, when he receives a letter from his friend, parish priest Padraic O'Malley, inviting him back to Ballycara. Instead of a weekend of fly fishing and Danny finds Father O'Malley dead in the church basement, peacefully laid out with a rosary in his hand. As he begins to investigate, he unearths a host of old grudges against Father O'Malley, tarnishing his idealistic image of his friend. 240 pp. ISBN: 1-885173377.

Auroro CO: Write Way Publishing, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Ireland. After the death of his father, Danny O'Flaherty realizes he knows nothing about his Irish roots, so he writes to his cousin and she invites him to come for a visit. But when he arrives in Ballycara, he finds her body bludgeoned to death outside her cottage - and he is the prime suspect. The first book in this series. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 1-885173067.

New York: Scribner, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a gothic tale of suspense set in modern Ireland where farmers cutting turf in a peat bog discover the well-preserved body of a young woman. Features Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Anthony and Agatha Awards. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-35053.

New York: Scribner, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in modern Ireland where a well-preserved Iron Age body has been found in a peat bog. Second in the series featuring Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin. SIGNED on the title page. Maps. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-47965.

New York: Scribner, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel, a gothic tale of suspense set in modern Ireland where farmers cutting turf in a peat bog discover the well-preserved body of a young woman. Features Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Anthony and Agatha Awards. 326 pp.

New York: Walker, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dustjacket: 'With the storytelling skill of a novelist and the nose of a detective, Matthew Hart follows the twists and turns of this celebrated case, linking it with two other world-famous thefts - of Vermeer's 'The Concert' and other renowned paintings at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' at the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo.' Photographs, including color plates of the stolen artwork. Notes, index. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-802714269.

Boston: Shambhala 2004. First edition - Novel by the author of the award winning 'Confessions of a Pagan Nun'. Set in Ireland in the 14th century, this is the story of a peasant girl raised as a boy, the discovery and revelation of her womanhood and her journey through a succesion of many identities.

New York: Morrow, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second suspense novel, set in Dublin, Ireland. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp.

New York: Dutton - Obelisk, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Late novel by this wonderful Anglo-Irish writer who published several novels under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell in the 1920's and 1930's and who was 'rediscovered' in 1981 when she finally published a novel under her own name. In this novel, the story of a girl longing for her mother's love, who enters into a "frightful" marriage, Keane "coolly dissects the tattered manners and withering society of the Anglo-Irish upper class, creating a winsomely evil comedy" that spans most of the first half of the 20th century. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-525-247998.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, (194). First edition - A collection of essays on the work of Ireland's most distinguished poets, Brendan Kennelly, including a biographical portrait and an interview with him. Contributors include Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Ake Persson and Kathleen McCracken. Kennelly has written more than 30 books of verse including the epics Cromwell and The Book of Judas. Bloodaxe Critical Anthologies #2. Notes and an extensive bibliography of works by and about Kennelly. 224 p. ISBN: 1852242760.

Boston: Godine, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1973 by this highly acclaimed and prize-winning Irish writer.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel, the author's third and final novel published in the same month as her death. While Lane is almost forgotten now, this novel was the second best-selling novel in the US for 1909. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 315 pp.

London: Virago Press, (1987). A novel by this American-born writer who grew up and lives and writes in Ireland, originally published in 1945. This ediiton includes an afterword by Augustine Martin. A title in the Virago Modern Classic series. 472 pp. plus 4 pp of ads. ISBN: 0-86068-718X.

New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story set in Belfast in northern Ireland in the 1960's. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-393-050521.

Tralee: Anvil Books, (1972) dj. SIGNED first edition - A collection of ballads by this Irish poet. INSCRIBED on the half title page in both English and Gaelic, "For Mary McGrath {herself} who threw her welcome shadow on our doorstep..." A prolific song writer and poet, his life and work is celebrated at a festival which is held each year in his hometown of Listowel in County Kerry. 32 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A memoir by this actor and author - he and his older brother Frank, the Pulitzer prize winning author of "Angela's Ashes," were born in Brooklyn, moved with their parents to Ireland as children, then escaped the poverty of Limerick and returned to the US. This book primarily focuses on the decade 1952 to 1963, when Malachy "roistered across the U.S., Europe, and Asia." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-786863986.

New York: Henry Holt, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author to be published in the US. "When two sisters and their aunt are found dead in their suburban Dublin home, it seems that the secret behind their untimely demise will never be known. But then Niall, a young mailman, finds a mysterious diary in the post offices dead-letter bin." Afterword. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0805089479.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1989). Hardcover first edition - Covers the period up to World War I, and compares the movement in Ireland with that in the US and England. Notes, bibliography, index. ix. 231pp. ISBN: 0-877226369.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - "This is the story of John Devine - stuck in a small town in the otherworldly landscape of southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother. . . " Irish author's very highly praised first novel - Colm Toibin called it "an absolutely wonderful novel . . so original and so disturbing and so brave..." 254 pp. ISBN: 9780151014026.

New York: MIRA, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A romantic suspense thriller. "On a remote stretch of the rugged coast of Ireland, folklorist and illustrator Keira Sullivan pursues an Irish legend of an ancient Celtic stone angel. As she searches an isolated ruin, she's certain she's discovered the mythic angel, but before she can examine her find, she senses a malevolent presence... Then the ruin collapses, trapping her. Keira's uncle, a Boston homicide detective, enlists the help of Simon Cahill to find his missing niece. When the violence follows them to Boston--and escalates--Simon and Keira realize that the long-forgotten story that has captivated her has also aroused a killer." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 345 pp. ISBN: 978-0778324836.

New York: Macmillan, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brian, visiting his Irish relatives for the first time, tries to prove to his skeptical great-aunt that his great-grandfather's tales of Irish lore and leprechauns are true, but each of his attempts to capture a leprechaun is stymied by Blossom, the cat, or the other farm animals. Illustrated with drawings by Andrew Glass. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-02-7681602.