Derry Murder Mysteries

 Scandi-noir? Welcome to the world of Derry-noir!

Join DI Liam McLaughlin and his team of have-a-go heroes--young upstart DS Nancy D'Arcy, ladies-man-in-his-mind DC Tom Lyons, tech whiz DC Fern Hawkins and newbie DC Henry 'Hens' Cahill--as they grapple with unmasking the most heinous of Derry City's murderers for the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The Derry Murder Mysteries is a series of gripping thrillers with jaw-dropping twists and a touch of Gerald Hansen’s signature dark humor. 

You'll Get Yours

Derry Murder Mysteries
Book #1 from the series: Derry Murder Mysteries

A gruesome murder with a strange twist.

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...

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Death in Small Measures

Derry Murder Mysteries
Book #2 from the series: Derry Murder Mysteries

A terminal illness wasn't quick enough.

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...

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Three Times A Killer

Derry Murder Mysteries
Book #3 from the series: Derry Murder Mysteries

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....

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Murder Rinse Repeat

Book #4 from the series: Derry Murder Mysteries

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...

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The Last Of Maggie

Book #5 from the series: Derry Murder Mysteries

THE LAST OF MAGGIE launches a bold new international branch of Gerald Hansen's bestselling murder series, DERRY MURDERS: OUT OF JURISDICTION.

Two time zones. Same body count.

DI Liam McLaughlin thought he’d left murder behind in Derry. The body found in a field under a full moon was bad enough—savaged, staged, and whispered about as something not...

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