Declan Burke

A Harry Rigby Mystery

1 - Eight-ball Boogie (Aug-2004)
2 - Slaughter's Hound (Aug-2012)

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  Eight-ball Boogie
  

  • Aug-2004
  • / Suspense
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  A Harry Rigby Mystery - 1
  

  Harry Rigby likes a smoke, the easy life, and Robert Ryan playing the bad guy in late night black-and-whites. Sweet. But when the wife of a prominent politician is murdered in her best nightie, Rigby finds himself caught in a crossfire between rogue ...

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  The Big O
  

  • Jan-2007
  • / Suspense
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  Karen's easy life as a receptionist and armed robber is about to take a turn for the worse. Rossi, her ex, is getting out of prison any day now. He'll be looking for his motorcycle, his gun, the sixty grand he says is his, and revenge. But he won't b...

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  Absolute Zero Cool
  

  • Feb-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Winner of the Crimefest 2012 Goldsboro Last Laugh Award Billy Karlsson needs to get real. Literally. A hospital porter with a sideline in euthanasia, Billy is a character trapped in the purgatory of an abandoned novel. Deranged by logic, driven beyon...

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  Slaughter's Hound
  

  • Aug-2012
  • / Mystery
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  A Harry Rigby Mystery - 2
  

  "I glanced up but he'd already jumped, a dark blur plummeting, wings folded against the drag like some starving hawk out of the noon sun, some angel betrayed. He punched through the cab's roof so hard he sent metal shearing into the petro...

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  Crime Always Pays
  

  • Jul-2014
  • / Mystery
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  Who says crime doesn't pay? The perpetrators of a botched kidnap make their getaway in this hilarious sequel to The Big O Karen and Ray are on their way to the Greek islands to rendezvous with Madge and split the fat bag of cash they conned from h...

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  The Lost and the Blind
  

  • Apr-2015
  • / Historical Mystery
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  This gripping Irish thriller is an intriguing new departure for comic noir writer Declan Burke. “A dying man, if he is any kind of man, will live beyond the law.” The elderly German, Karl Uxkull, was senile or desperate for attention. Why else...

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  Trouble Is Our Business
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  Thrilling, disturbing, shocking and moving, Trouble Is Our Business: New Stories by Irish Crime Writers is a compulsive anthology of original stories by Ireland's best-known crime writers. Featuring: Patrick McGinley, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Colin Batem...

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  The Lammisters
  

  • Dec-2019
  • / General Fiction
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