Voted Top 20 by readers in the BooksOffice.com search for the Next Killer TV Series, Derek Fee's novel is the first in his Galway Murder series set on the West Coast of Ireland:
"When a Detective returns to Ireland with her new female partner and their peace is shattered by murder and a ghost from her past, can she risk exposing the truth and facing her own demons?"
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Connemara Girl
DS Fiona Madden is back in Galway and living happily with her partner Ashling McGoldrick. Her quiet life is disrupted by the disappearance of a teenager and the arrival of a young man claiming to be the son she gave up for adoption. The disappearance of the girl brings Fiona back to her native village where she knows her past reputation still hangs like a shroud of shame and she has to face her own sense of guilt as she pursues the guilty.
Murder in Clifden
DS Fiona Madden and Detective Sean Tracy are given the task of assisting with the solution of a mini crime wave in the town of Clifden. The situation is complicated by two groups of travellers being camped in the area.
A man who has been stabbed to death is found on the morning after the annual Horse Fair in Clifden. He has been stripped of all identification and been dumped in a location which is not the crime scene...
The Druid's Dagger
DS Fiona Madden and detective Garda Sean Tracy are sent to the Aran Islands to investigate a murder with ritual overtones. The corpse, with a dagger buried in its chest, lies on a stone platform within the Neolithic fort of Dun Aengus. Madden and Tracy must operate and think outside the box to discover the motive for the murder and unmask the killer.
The Corpse in the Bog
DS Fiona Madden and her partner Detective Garda Tracy are close by when a corpse is exposed in the cutting of a bog in South Connemara. They naturally draw the case and their investigation into the identity of the corpse and the reason for his death leads them to a series of major crimes that happened in the past.
The Poteenmaker's Muder
Three members of the same family are found murdered in a cottage in a remote area of South Connemara. When DS Fiona Madden and her partner detective Garda Sean Tracy view the scene, they learn there is another family member apparently missing. Madden’s superior, DI Horgan, draws the obvious conclusion that the missing son is the murderer. But that theory proves false...
The Body at the Battery
Detective Sergeant Fiona Madden and her partner are sent to investigate the report of a body in a remote area of South Connemara. It appears that a young woman has been murdered and dumped. The preliminary investigation by the SCI team from the Garda Technical Bureau tells another story.
The First Cut
A vicious killer is on the loose. Victims include an academic and members of Edinburgh's high society. When the Murder Investigation Team find out that the killer is connected to her past, DS Jane Renwick is banished to the side-lines and forced to look on as the manhunt ramps up at a ferocious pace.
Elena in Exile
Elena Balan should be laying low. After all, she's on the run from an unspeakable horror. A Romanian single mum, Elena arrives in London to discover that her lover, Frances, has vanished. To find her, Elena's 14-year-old daughter Ana enlists the help of a police officer, the disgraced former DC Robin Yarmouth.
The First Time Ever
You’ve never met a copper like Ted Darling. He’s small, quiet. He doesn’t smoke. He’s packed in the booze. But he’s a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four martial arts. A shift in circumstances makes him swap guns for the CID. His first case is the brutal murder of a teenage girl. Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or has he, as his boss warned him, committed career suicide?
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