Bøger af Kevin McManus

It's murder out there... The body of an unknown man has been discovered on a beach in the cold light of day, a body that has been shot and left to bleed out on the sand. Detective Inspector Ray Logue, still reeling from the events of his last case, is brought in to investigate. While working the case, he is drawn into the maelstrom of gang warfare as he comes face to face with the 'New Blood' - a young gang leader called Kyle Brody who is fast making a name for himself. Brody is lawless. He is a predator and a thug who takes no mercy on those who stand in his way, seemingly rejecting society and taking pride in causing mayhem. Dealing, smuggling and murdering are Brody's trades - he's good at them and from the wounds inflicted on the body Logue sees, it looks like he takes pleasure in cruelty. Yet as more details emerge about Brody's accomplices, Logue realises that the lines between good and evil are not always clear, and all is certainly not as it appears to be. There's a storm brewing... Set in Ireland at the peak of the Celtic Tiger era, New Blood is a dark story of murder, greed and misplaced loyalties.

The setting: a small town in western Ireland in the Winter of 1988Conor Doyle returns from London to his native village of Ballinastrad. What he hoped would be a joyful reunion, meeting up with family and friends, quickly becomes something more as he becomes drawn into the fallout surrounding a recent shocking crime.Relationships are tested and Conor must look deep inside himself to make an important decision. Should he tell the Police or keep a secret?Either way, Conor Doyle will be haunted by his decision. "An intriguing and evocative tale of a love triangle immersed in a well-depicted panorama of small-town Ireland." Anthony J.Quinn"Paints the characters and their relationships with a fine brush." Peter Jearle"Kevin McManus is one of those writers that other authors envy, as he can write just about bloody anything and write it well. First class." Nicola Kearns"The author sets each scene beautifully." Sheryl Lee

Thirty years on from the events of "The Whole of the Moon" in the village of Ballinastrad in Western Ireland, Conor Doyle is still haunted by the ghosts from his past. Richard Morgan a retired movie director has bought and renovated Dunmadden Manor house on the outskirts of the village. Richard's son James and Conor's daughter Grainne are making plans for a Christmas wedding. However tensions are burning high in the area with the arrival of three individuals that will change forever the lives of Conor Doyle and Richard Morgan. Murder returns to Ballinastrad Under the Red Winter Sky.

Detective Ray Logue is a maverick. He is stationed in Superintendent Jim Mulcahy's police department, having never quite got over the death of his wife 8 years earlier. Logue is now a hard-drinking and damaged cop, a loose cannon, a thorn in Mulcahy's side, apt to take the law into his own hands - but he always gets results. So when faced with the murder of an attractive Polish girl in Port Ard, Co Mayo during the week before Halloween and the subsequent chain of killings that follow, Logue stubbornly refuses to let go even when his Super takes him off the case. Why on earth, Logue asks himself at the outset, would anyone want to kill Anna Pawalowski, a beautiful estate agent, while she was out on a viewing? And why did the mutilated body of her Polish boyfriend then end up being washed up on the shore? Was she cheating on him? Did his love rival take revenge? Or are there much darker forces at play? But as the body count begins to rise, Logue slowly senses he has stumbled into a sticky web of lies, cover-ups and deceit stretching from his own department all the way to the top level of political power. From the law-enforcers to the law-makers, from respectable businessmen to Russian mobsters - a sinister hand is exercising an iron grip across the whole social order and woe betide any who dare to try to weaken it in any way. In a world of corruption and double talk the only person Logue can trust is his sidekick, Detective Jack McGarry who pulls him back on track to bring whoever is responsible for the carnage to justice one way or another. Logue, though, feels he has nothing more to lose and is hell bent on pursuing a malevolent force to the bitter end. After a tumultuous showdown he believes he has been successful. Set in Ireland at the peak of the Celtic Tiger era, Death Rains Down is a dark story of murder, organised crime and political corruption.

In Western Ireland in 1979, Hazel Devereaux, a student of Trinity College in Dublin, goes missing while working at a summer job. Six months later her body is discovered in a shallow grave. A line from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled "A Paean" is discovered in an envelope at the house Hazel was renting. Could this be a calling card of the murderer?Thirty years later, Detective Ray Logue discovers that a series of murders in Boston appear to be connected to the killings in 1979. Each victim also received a line from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe delivered to their homes. It becomes evident that a serial killer is at work and has claimed seven lives so far.The murderer kills two victims every ten years, always on a year ending in nine and always on the same dates in June and December. If he follows the same pattern, he will kill again in less than a fortnight. Ray Logue is dispatched to Boston to work alongside Detective Olivia Callaghan and Inspector Sam Harper to discover the identity of the murderer and to stop him before he strikes again. Logue's 'bull in a china shop' policing method brings him into conflict with Sam Harper's more calculated and measured approach. As a result, trying to work together becomes almost as challenging as catching the serial killer. But catch a killer they must.