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 50 Irish Fiction & Mysteries – 2024 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”
Ellie Brannigan “Murder at an Irish Castle”
Verity Bright “Murder in an Irish Castle”
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”
Maddie Day: “Four Leaf Cleaver”
Frank Delaney: “The Last Storyteller”
Dicey Deere: “The Irish Village Murder”
Nelson Demille: “Cathedral”
Peggy Ehrhart: “Irish Knit Murder”
Patricia Falvey: “The Yellow House”
Tana French: “The Searcher”
Alexia Gordon: “Murder in G Major”
Jean Grainger: “For All the World”
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, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross: “Irish Coffee Murder”
Catie Murphy “Dead in Dublin”
Stuart Neville: “So Say the Fallen”
Carlene O’Connor: “Murder at an Irish Chipper”
Susanne O’Leary: “The Lost Girls of Ireland”
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 Welcome”
Charles Todd: “An Irish Hostage”
Peter Tremayne: “Blood in Eden”
Kathy Hogan Trochek: “Irish Eyes”
Eliza Watson “How to Handle an Ancestry Scandal”
Traci Wilton “Mrs. Morris and the Pot of Gold”
If your favorite Irish Fiction & Mysteries titles are not on the list, let me know and I’ll add them! Happy choosing and reading!
