St. Patrick’s Day will be here soon! For those of you that focus your reading on holiday/cultural themed books, the list below features Irish writers, mysteries/suspense set in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day murders, or titles with Irish characters central to the plot. Some are modern classics, some are newbies, but all are entertaining reads. You’re sure to find a story in the updated list of 40 Irish Fiction & Mysteries – 2021 that you will want to read again and again. (Links included for bold titles)
Lisa Alber: “Path into Darkness”
Maeve Binchy: “Chestnut Street”
Furlong-Bollinger: “Paddy Whacked”
Declan Burke: “The Lost and the Blind”
Steve Cavanagh: “Th1rt3en”
Sheila Connolly: “Fatal Roots”
Kathy Cranston: “Apple Seeds and Murderous Deeds”
Sinead Crowley: “One Bad Turn”
Kathi Daley: “Shamrock Shenanigans”
Frank Delaney: “The Last Storyteller“
Nelson Demille: “Cathedral”
Patricia Falvey: “The Yellow House”
Lucy Foley: “The Guest List”
Tana French: “The Searcher”
Alexia Gordon: “Murder in G Major”
Andrew Greeley: “The Bishop at the Lake”
Jane Haddam: “A Great Day for the Deadly”
Lyn Hamilton: “The Celtic Riddle”
Lee Harris: “The St. Patrick’s Day Murder”
Erin Hart: “The Book of Killowen”
Jonathan Harrington: “A Great Day for Dying”
Mary Anne Kelly: “Twillyweed”
Amanda Lee: “The Long Stitch Good Night”
Dan Mahoney: “Once in, Never Out”
Caimh McDonnell: “A Man with One of Those Faces”
Brian McGilloway: “The Last Crossing”
Adrian McKinty: “The Chain”
Ralph M. McInerny: “The Green Revolution”
Leslie Meier: “Irish Parade Murder”
Stuart Neville: “So Say the Fallen”
Carlene O’Connor: “Murder in an Irish Bookshop”
Sister Carol Anne O’Marie: “Death Takes Up a Collection”
Helen Page: “Equal of God”
Louise Phillips: “The Doll’s House”
J.M. Poole “Case of the Shady Shamrock”
Janet Elaine Smith: “In St. Patrick’s Custody”
Jo Spain: “Beneath the Surface”
Patrick Taylor: “An Irish Country Family”
Peter Tremayne: “Blood in Eden”
Kathy Hogan Trochek: “Irish Eyes”
If your favorite Irish Fiction & Mysteries titles are not on the list, let me know and I’ll add them! Happy choosing and reading!
