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Derry's hairstylists are running scared as the second in their circle is found slain in the most horrific manner imaginable. Even seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin is shocked when he comes upon the scene. What deranged mind would stoop to such depths and, more importantly, why? It had to be something much worse than a bad perm. Can the ragtag...

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 across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless wino who spent his days hanging out on the street corner where the bank used to be. He rarely asked for handouts, though occasionally burst...

It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found dead the morning after a raucous party in the family’s back garden pub. But the woman had a terminal illness and would have been dead before the year was out anyway. Why the hurry...?

Family, friends and neighbors had crammed into the tiny pub that night. DI Liam McLaughlin and...

Supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps has been strangled, stripped to her underwear, and her body forced into a gruesome position atop one of the cannons of Derry’s historic city walls. For seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin and the ragtag officers of the Major Investigation Team, it’s a murder they’ve never seen the likes of before.

Middle-aged Regina...

Is that the jingle of sleigh bells Fionnuala hears, or the jangle of handcuffs?

Five new works of family dysfunction and dark humor with the Flood and Barnett families. Written during the pandemic, these two full length novels (Useless and Wind Chill), two novellas (A Difficult Birth and It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like...Fionnuala) and a short story (A Backstitch in Spacetime) will have you laughing and gasping and...

Even Ursula is shocked when she discovers the secret of her Irish stew. But just what is that secret...?

At the height of the Cold War, St. Patrick’s Day is swiftly approaching the US Naval air base perched on the lava fields of Iceland. Derry woman Ursula has never given her stew recipe much thought, but when she and her best mate Reenie are...

What Fionnuala wants at the Top Yer Trolly they certainly don’t stock.

While desperately cramming to appear on the TV quiz show Useless, Fionnuala Flood discovers many things about the world she had never cared to know. The most alarming to her is what scientists are up to in an underground tunnel in Switzerland: smashing atoms together at close to the speed of light. She’s heard that toying with these things will...

When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning.

Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youthful sins as a collaborator with the IRA in the 1970s. At the first sniff of Ursula s lotto win, however,...

Get set for Jet Lag Jerry again! Join me as I travel to Peru, to Lima, Cuzco, Ollantaytambo and to the jewel in the crown of this exciting country, Machu Picchu. It’s another of the fantastic seven modern wonders of the world. Woozy in the high altitude, jittery from cocaine tea, stomach groaning from grilled guinea pig, I’ll take you on the...

Derry girls, women, wee boys, hard men, they’re all here in the these four stand alone short works from the Derry Women Series. Previously released as a short story (Table For Nine At Kebablicious), a novelette (The Way to A Man’s Heart or Strange Things on Plates) and a novella (A Very Fionnuala Christmas) and A Backstitch in Spacetime, they...

CHristmas will be funThis Christmas, Fionnuala Flood has made one big mistake and she’s paying for it big time. The cops or the criminals. All she wanted to do was hug her sons returning home for the holidays, kick her feet up and watch Titanic while nibbling Zoe’s posh amuse bouches, whatever they were. But, after a few too glasses of Christmas...

The story of the feisty Derry women and men of the Floods and the hapless Barnetts continues! The Derry Women Series Box Set was such a hit, here’s part two. Get set to binge on these three stand-alone novels of family dysfunction and dark humor that will make you ‘laugh and cry and fume,’ according to comedian Colin Quinn. In Best Served...

PLEASE NOTE: Although this novelette is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it’s a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.

Maybe they should’ve said grace beforehand...?

The extended Flood family are in for a surprise. Hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood, tiring of the usual fish fingers and baked beans on toast, has...

Get set for Jet Set Jerry! Join me as I take you on a whirlwind tour of our wonderful world. Don’t worry, I’ll do all the hard work (the standing in line for visas and security, the shriek-inducing vaccinations, the twelve hour flights, the shoving of three days’ clothing for two types of weather into the confines of a carry on, the conversion...

The Floods are shopping down the town, and Fionnuala is gasping! She wants a cup of tea, milky with three sugars, at the Kebabalicious. The fast food chain has attempted to go upmaket with a swanky new self-serve tea and coffee corner, and Fionnuala is excited to check it out. And she’s also desperate to rest her aching feet. But will she be...

Destination: nowhere. Just what are the career alternatives for a disenchanted flight attendant? And after a decade of wrong choices, can she finally grow up?

Gretchen Barnett, slogging daily through the unfriendly skies on Nickel and Dime, America's most loathed budget airline, tries to upgrade her life as her twenties draw to an end. In...

Note: For those who prefer a gentler reading experience, a PG version of this box set is also available here on Amazon. Before there were Derry Girls, there were the Derry Women. Who do you think gave birth to the girls? With a foreword from Colin Quinn. When Ursula and Jed Barnett win the lottery in Derry, they think their troubles are over....

When an armed robbery at Final Spinz, the dry cleaners where hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood works, leads to the death of beloved pensioner Mrs. Ming, the ensuing investigation unleashes dark secrets that promise to bring Fionnuala closer to her husband Paddy, her mother Maureen, and the four children of her brood still in town. Or tear them...

Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but hardened mother of seven Fionnuala Flood plans on serving hers up frozen. Or so she thinks.

The bells are ringing out in Derry, Northern Ireland, as the dirt-poor Floods and the rich and entitled Riddells prepare for the pairing in matrimony of their families and a bridging of the gap between the two...

Desperate mother of seven, Fionnuala Flood, thinks her new get-rich-quick scheme will pay all the bills, but instead it threatens to tear the family apart.

The case of bargain bin canned vegetables she bought for the scam contains not spuds but explosives. A wilting branch of the defunct IRA will stop at nothing to get them back. Adding to the...

It's danger on the high seas for the Barnetts, but will it come from the authorities, Mother Nature or family Flood?

In Wisconsin six years ago, Ursula Barnett accidentally committed a shocking crime. The statute of limitations is inching closer, and the police are circling in. Panicked, Ursula books herself and her American family passage on a...