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General catalogue - The O'Brien Press

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SAM MILLAR<br />

Bloodstorm<br />

A Karl Kane Novel<br />

Karl Kane is a private investigator with a dark<br />

past. Given a chance for revenge, he allows his<br />

mother’s murderer to escape, but is sure that<br />

the brutal murders of two young girls are the<br />

same man’s work. Can he close this chapter<br />

in his life?<br />

224 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-375-4/€11.99 pb<br />

Rights available W<br />

<strong>The</strong> Darkness of Bones<br />

A tense tale of murder, betrayal, sexual abuse<br />

and revenge, and the corruption at the heart of<br />

the respectable establishment.<br />

240 pages<br />

ISBN 978-0-86322-350-1 €8.99 pb<br />

Rights available W<br />

<strong>The</strong> Dark Place<br />

A Karl Kane Novel<br />

Young homeless women and drug addicts are<br />

being abducted before being brutally mutilated<br />

and murdered, holding a city terrorised. By<br />

abducting Katie, the young daughter of private<br />

investigator Karl Kane, the killer has just made<br />

his first mistake.<br />

256 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-403-4/€11.99 pb<br />

Rights available W<br />

<strong>The</strong> Redemption Factory<br />

A brutal and compelling tale of murder and<br />

corruption, set in the surreal environment of an<br />

abattoir.<br />

254 pages<br />

ISBN 978-0-86322-339-6<br />

€8.99 pb<br />

Rights available W<br />

Rights sold US/CAN<br />

PAUL CHARLES<br />

KEN BRUEN<br />

A34<br />

Sweetwater<br />

A DI Christy Kennedy Mystery<br />

Christy Kennedy is an Ulsterman living in<br />

leafy Primrose Hill and working in vibrant<br />

Camden Town. While recuperating from an<br />

injury, he is working on a missing person case<br />

when an acquaintance is murdered.<br />

288 pages<br />

ISBN 978-0-86322-356-3 €19.99 hb<br />

ISBN 978-0-86322-367-9 €8.99 pb<br />

Rights available W/Rights sold SW<br />

<strong>The</strong> Dust of Death<br />

An Inspector Starrett Mystery<br />

<strong>The</strong> bloodied body of a crucified man is<br />

discovered in the Second Federation Church<br />

in an Irish Heritage Town. <strong>The</strong> investigations<br />

by Inspector Starrett soon reveal a County<br />

Donegal that is not nearly as righteous as its<br />

many churches might suggest.<br />

288 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-385-3<br />

€8.99 pb/Rights available W<br />

<strong>The</strong> Guards<br />

Mourning the death of his father, former detective<br />

Jack is slowly drinking himself into oblivion<br />

when he is asked to investigate a teenage<br />

suicide. Jack is soon plunged into a dangerous<br />

confrontation with a powerful businessman and<br />

with the Irish police, who have an unhealthy<br />

interest in his past.<br />

304 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-410-2<br />

€8.99 pb<br />

<strong>The</strong> Magdalen Martyrs<br />

Jack gets a tip off about a missing girl, and his<br />

ex-cop brain pulls his body into action. Rita<br />

Monroe had been one of the Magdalen girls,<br />

a group of unmarried mothers consigned into<br />

slavery in a nun-run laundry. With his uncanny<br />

ability to look in all the right places, Jack sets<br />

out on Rita’s trail.<br />

320 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-302-0<br />

€9.99 pb<br />

<strong>The</strong> Beautiful Sound of Silence<br />

A DI Christy Kennedy Mystery<br />

A Halloween Bonfire goes horribly wrong<br />

when a body is spotted in the fire. Identifiable<br />

only through his dental records, the victim is<br />

retired police Superintendent David Peters, an<br />

ex-colleague of DI Christy Kennedy. Each case<br />

they review throws up another suspect.<br />

288 pages<br />

ISBN 978-0-86322-377-8 €19.99 hb<br />

ISBN 978-0-86322-398-3 €9.99 pb<br />

Rights available W/Rights sold F<br />

Family Life<br />

An Inspector Starrett Mystery<br />

<strong>The</strong> clan gathers at Liam Sweeney’s farm in<br />

County Donegal to celebrate his birthday, and<br />

banter and storytelling are abundant. But the<br />

arrival of Inspector Starrett ruins the mood:<br />

the body of one family member has just been<br />

discovered.<br />

336 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-415-7<br />

€12.99 pb/Rights available W<br />

<strong>The</strong> Killing of the Tinkers<br />

<strong>The</strong> second Jack Taylor novel. Jack, a disgraced<br />

ex-police detective from Galway, has slid<br />

even further down the slope of alcoholic despair.<br />

But someone is killing the tinkers, and even in<br />

the state he’s in, Jack has an uncanny ability to<br />

know where to look and what questions to ask.<br />

256 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-411-9<br />

€8.99 pb<br />

<strong>The</strong> Dramatist<br />

<strong>The</strong> impossible has happened: Jack Taylor<br />

is living clean and dating a mature woman.<br />

<strong>The</strong> accidental deaths of two students appear<br />

random, tragic events, but in each case a copy<br />

of a book by John Millington Synge is found<br />

beneath the body. Jack begins to believe that<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Dramatist’, a calculating killer, is out there,<br />

enticing him to play...<br />

240 pages/ISBN 978-0-86322-386-0<br />

€8.99 pb

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