Gerald Hansen

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2007
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Derry Murder Mystery

1 - You'll Get Yours (Jul-2023)
2 - Death in Small Measures (Dec-2023)

The Derry Women

1 - An Embarrassment of Riches (Oct-2007)
2 - Hand in the Till (Jan-2011)
3 - Fleeing The Jurisdiction (Sep-2012)
4 - Best Served Frozen (Jul-2014)
5 - Static Cling (Dec-2015)
6 - Emergency Exit (May-2017)
6.5 - Table For Nine At Kebabalicious (Sep-2017)
6.6 - The Way To A Man's Heart Or Strange Things On Plates (Mar-2018)
7 - The Secret of Ursula's Stew (Nov-2019)
8 - Useless (Sep-2020)
9 - When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling (Apr-2021)
10 - A Very Fionnuala Christmas (Apr-2021)
11 - A Backstitch in Spacetime (Nov-2020)
12 - Wind Chill: The Many Secrets of Ursula's Irish Stew (Jul-2021)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • An Embarrassment of Riches

    The Derry Women - 1

    When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning.

    Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youth...

  • Hand in the Till

    The Derry Women - 2

    "Comic Irish writing at its best"--Colin Quinn, comedian.


    "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland are history, and in the city of Derry, former foes Catholics and Protestants are living happily side by side. Or are they?


    Harde...

  • Fleeing The Jurisdiction

    The Derry Women - 3

    It's danger on the high seas for the Barnetts, but will it come from the authorities, Mother Nature or family Flood?
    In Wisconsin six years ago, Ursula Barnett accidentally defrauded her local church of $100,000. The statue of limitations is inchi...

  • Best Served Frozen

    The Derry Women - 4

    Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but hardened mother of seven Fionnuala Flood plans on serving hers up frozen. Or so she thinks.The bells are ringing out in Derry, Northern Ireland, as the dirt-poor Floods and rich and entitled Riddells p...

  • Static Cling

    The Derry Women - 5

    PLEASE NOTE: Although this book is part of the IRISH LOTTERY SERIES, there is no cliffhanger. It is true that the characters get older as the series progresses, but each book is a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous bo...

  • Emergency Exit

    The Derry Women - 6

    Destination: nowhere.
    Just what are the career alternatives for a disenchanted flight attendant? And after a decade of wrong choices and loser boyfriends, can she finally grow up and nab Mr. Right?
    Gretchen Barnett, slogging daily through the...

  • Table For Nine At Kebabalicious

    The Derry Women - 6.5

    The Floods are shopping down the town, and Fionnuala is gasping! She wants a cup of tea, milky with three sugars, at the Kebabalicious. The fast food chain has attempted to go upmaket with a swanky new self-serve tea and coffee corner, and Fionnuala ...

  • The Way To A Man's Heart Or Strange Things On Plates

    The Derry Women - 6.6

    PLEASE NOTE: Although this novelette is part of the IRISH LOTTERY SERIES, it's a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.Maybe they should've said grace beforehand...?The extended Flood family are in for a surprise. ...

  • The Secret of Ursula's Stew

    The Derry Women - 7

    Although this novel is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it's a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.Even Ursula is shocked when she discovers the secret of her Irish stew. But just what is that secret...?At the hei...



  • Useless

    The Derry Women - 8

     When Fionnuala Flood delivers her first child Moira, it's a very difficult birth, the memory of which will haunt Fionnuala always. More difficult for her to come to terms with is what Moira eventually reveals herself to be (at least in Fionnual...

  • A Backstitch in Spacetime

    The Derry Women - 11

  • A Very Fionnuala Christmas

    The Derry Women - 10

    Although this novella is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it's a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books. Hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood is in raptures when she hears sons Lorcan and Eoin are coming back home to D...

  • When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling

    The Derry Women - 9

    Derry girls, women, wee boys, hard men, they're all here in the these three stand alone short works from the Derry Women Series. Previously released as a short story (Table For Nine At Kebablicious), a novelette (The Way to A Man's Heart or Strange T...

  • Wind Chill: The Many Secrets of Ursula's Irish Stew

    The Derry Women - 12

    Even Ursula is shocked when she discovers the secret of her Irish stew. But just what is that secret...?At the height of the Cold War, St. Patrick's Day is swiftly approaching the US Naval air base perched on the lava fields of Iceland. Derry woman U...

  • You'll Get Yours

    A Derry Murder Mystery - 1

    Supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps has been strangled, stripped to her underwear, and her body forced into a gruesome position atop one of the cannons of Derry's historic city walls. For seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin and his ragtag team from the Se...

  • Death in Small Measures

    A Derry Murder Mystery - 2

    A terminal illness wasn't fast enough. It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found poisoned the morning after a raucous party. But the woman would have been dead in a few months anyway. Why the hurry...?Family, friends and ...

  • Dead Quick

    Three ways to die, one baffling case. DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D'Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up in an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless win...

  • Murder Rinse Repeat

    Derry's hairstylists are running scared as the second in their circle is found slain in the most horrific manner imaginable. Even seasoned DI McLaughlin is shocked when he comes upon the scene. What deranged mind would stoop to such depths and, ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Hansen has published 18 books.

The next book by Gerald Hansen, Murder Rinse Repeat, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches, was published in October 2007.

Yes. Gerald Hansen has 2 series.
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