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...

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...

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....

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...