A very different setting. A very familiar crime.

DI Liam McLaughlin expected sun instead of rain, ruins instead of reports, and a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter. What he didn’t expect—on a Nile cruise packed with international tourists—was to bump into a group of mature students from Derry.

Then their leader—lecturer Dr. Maggie...

Fear is the new style in Derry.

The city’s hairstylists are running scared as the second in their circle, poor Gloria Baggot, is found brutally slain in a shower stall. She lathered her own death into her hair.

As DI McLaughlin and team struggle to find a connection between the two victims, they are pulled from the salons into a world of secret...

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. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless indigent who spent his days hanging out on the street corner. He rarely asked for handouts but did occasionally burst into song....