Anthony J. Quinn

A new crime series set in the brooding landscape of the Scottish borders from the author of the Celcius Daly series. Not long out of the fast-track training course at Edinburgh's police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is about to be tested to breaking point. She's been called to Deepwell psychiatric hospital in the Scottish borders to interview a patient who has confessed to the murder of one of the hospital's psychotherapists. The confession is vividly detailed, but for a man locked in a secure ward and under 24-hour surveillance, it is also utterly impossible. So why can't the supposedly murdered psychotherapist be contacted? Why are the hospital staff so secretive, so difficult to work with? Why have other Deepwell patients made disturbingly similar confessions over the past year? Against the advice of her superiors, Carla delves deeper into the hospital's past and is plunged into a labyrinth of jealousies, lies and hallucinations. Struggling to separate fact from fantasy, Carla embarks on a chilling trail through the bleak uplands and dark forests of the Scottish borders, every step taking her closer to a final – deadly – reckoning. 'Quinn sets up a Russian doll narrative, with manipulation within manipulation' GUARDIAN. 'Carefully wrought, often lyrical prose, always rich with foreboding' BOOKLIST.

The Listeners

DISAPPEARED introduces Celcius Daly, a Belfast Police Inspector laden with flawed judgment and misplaced loyalties. A retired detective vanishes... The wanderings of a man succumbing to dementia, or something more sinister? An ex-intelligence officer is tortured to death... But why was his obituary printed in the local paper before he died? A son seeks his father's long-lost grave... And vengeance for his murder. A stone-cold killer stalks the outskirts of Belfast... At whose behest is he hunting his targets? Betrayal, secrets, lies... As Inspector Celcius Daly will discover, in Northern Ireland the past is never dead.

Disappeared

Trespass

Undertow

The abduction of a child entangles Celcius Daly in a forty-year-old quest for justice. Inspector Celcius Daly is leading the search for a ten-year-old boy, abducted in broad daylight from the car park outside Armagh Courthouse. His investigation leads to a notorious group of travellers long suspected of smuggling and organised crime. Digging deeper, Daly discovers some harrowing truths about their past treatment and unearths a family secret linked to an unsolved crime during the Troubles – the disappearance of a young traveller woman and her baby. Under investigation by Internal Affairs, hounded by Special Branch, ostracised by his colleagues, Daly realises just how much he has in common with the outcast travellers. But dare he risk becoming entangled in a vigilante vendetta? Just how far will this group of outsiders go to find their own justice?

Celsius Daly, ein Northern Irish Police Inspector, ist Mitte vierzig und geschieden. Nach dem Mord an seiner Mutter und kehrt er in seinen Heimatort zurück, um ihr Haus zu verkaufen. Die Leiche eines toten Polizisten wird am Lough Neagh ans Ufer angeschwemmt. Niemand ist sich sicher, ob es sich um Selbstmord, Mord oder einen Unfall handelt. Als der Tote als Detective Brian Carey der Garda Síochána identifiziert wird, entdeckt Daly schnell, dass Carey gegen Tom Morgan ermittelt hat. Einen ehemaligen IRA Sympathisanten, der zum Schmuggler wurde. Was als einfacher Fall von Selbstmord erscheint, erweckt in Daly den Eindruck, dass in dem von Armut geprägten Dreesh nahe der irischen Grenze Recht und Ordnung zum Stillstand gekommen sind. Informanten, betrunkene ExCops, freiberufliche Geheimagenten und gewalttätige Schmugglern bestimmen das Bild, in dem alle unter dem Bann eines hinterhältigen Kriminalchefs mit politischer Verbindung zur IRA stehen. Anthony J. Quinn beschreibt, wie brüchig das Zusammenleben an der irischen Grenze ist, die nur befriedet und nicht miteinander versöhnt zu sein scheint.

Kriminalroman

Gestrandet

"Auslöschung" ist der erste Band der Reihe um den nordirischen Polizeiinspektor Celcius Daly aus Belfast. Celcius ist mit dem Verschwinden eines Detektivs im Ruhestand befasst. Der pensionierte Agent einer Spezialabteilung, David Hughes, hatte, bevor er verschwand, einen zuvor abgeschlossenen Fall untersucht. Den von Oliver Jordan, der vor Jahrzehnten verschwunden ist und in den die IRA verwickelt war. Die Irrfahrten eines Mannes, der an Demenz erkrankt ist, oder etwas Unheimlicheres? Ein ehemaliger Geheimdienstoffizier wird zu Tode gefoltert. Aber warum wurde sein Nachruf vor seinem Tod in der Lokalzeitung abgedruckt? Zur gleichen Zeit sucht ein Sohn das lange verlorene Grab seines Vaters und Rache für seinen Mord.Ein eiskalter Mörder schleicht um den Stadtrand von Belfast. Auf wessen Geheiß jagt er seine Ziele? Verrat, Geheimnisse, Lügen. Obwohl nun die Bomben Belfast nicht mehr erschüttern, geht der Kampf für Einige weiter. Wie Inspektor Celcius Daly feststellen wird, ist die Vergangenheit in Nordirland niemals tot. Unter der trügerischen Ruhe Nordirlands droht uralter Neid das Land erneut zu zerreißen.

Auslöschung

A policeman's death leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption. Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order have ground to a halt, and whose residents, ruined by a chain of bankruptcies, have fallen under the spell of a malevolent crime boss with powerful connections. Out of his jurisdiction and out of his comfort zone, Daly is plunged into a shadowy border world of desperate informers, drunken ex-cops, freelance intelligence agents and violent smugglers. Kept deliberately in the dark by police forces on both sides of the border, Daly's dogged investigation will spark an outbreak of murderous violence as the truth begins to emerge from the shadows.

The latest novel set during the War of Independence from Irish writer Anthony J. Quinn, author of Disappeared which was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year and Times Book of the Year pick 2014. Dublin 1919. A city at war with itself, a cauldron of soldiers, spies, rebels and political intrigue. The mysterious and seductive Lily Merrin, secretary at Dublin Castle, is on a mission but whose side is she on and what is compelling her to consider the ultimate sacrifice?Charismatic Irish revolutionary leader, Michael Collins burns with a vision for his country, but others are plotting his downfall. And now Martin Kant, an English journalist, enters the arena. A serial killer is at large and Lily is in mortal peril. Kant must employ every sinew of his declining resources if he is to rescue not only Lily, but his own soul.Can hope survive amidst the moral ruin, and love be sustained in a time of soaring ambition and bloodshed?

A Gripping Mystery of Spies and Lovers in Revolutionary Ireland

Blind Arrows

Anthony J Quinn's debut novel, Disappeared, was a Times Book of the Year in 2014. The Blood Dimmed Tide, 'an Irish Shadow of the Wind' (Crime Time) is a thrilling piece of historical crime fiction set in Ireland during World War One. London at the dawn of 1918 and Ireland's most famous literary figure, WB Yeats, is immersed in supernatural investigations at his Bloomsbury rooms. Haunted by the restless spirit of an Irish girl whose body is mysteriously washed ashore in a coffin, Yeats undertakes a perilous journey back to Ireland with his apprentice ghost-catcher Charles Adams to piece together the killer's identity. Surrounded by spies, occultists and diehard female rebels, the two are led on a gripping journey along Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, through the ruins of its abandoned estates, and into its darkest, most haunted corners. Falling under the spell of dark forces, Yeats and his ghost-catcher come dangerously close to crossing the invisible line that divides the living from the dead.

The Blood Dimmed Tide

The sole survivor of a murderous ambush, a Belfast police detective is forced into a desperate search for a mysterious informer that takes him to a holy island on Lough Derg, a place shrouded in strange mists and hazy rain, where nothing is as it first appears to be. A keeper of secrets and a purveyor of lies, the detective finds himself surrounded by enemies disguised as pilgrims, and is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the purgatorial island, where he is forced to confront a series of disturbing secrets and ghosts in his own life. Haunting and unsettling, Turncoat is a story of guilt, survival and the terrible price of self-knowledge, told through the voice of a detective with a double life. Descending into paranoia and self-doubt, he uncovers a sinister panorama of cover-ups and conspiracies. The closer he edges to the truth, the deeper he is drawn into the currents of power, violence and guilt engulfing his country... Praise for Anthony J. Quinn 'This should make Quinn a star, for it is unquestionably one of the crime novels of the year' Daily Mail 'Superbly original' Sunday Express 'Beautifully written... a novel that demonstrates how capacious the crime fiction genre can be' Independent

Turncoat

In Northern Ireland's darkest corner, the Troubles have never ended. Though bombs no longer rock Belfast, for some the fight goes on. Retired Special Branch agent David Hughes disappears after looking into the previously closed case of Oliver Jordan, who went missing at the hands of the IRA decades ago. Soon after, a former spy is found bludgeoned to death, the day after placing his own obituary in the newspaper. Beneath Northern Ireland's modern calm, ancient jealousies threaten to rend the country asunder once more. A Catholic detective in a Protestant nation, Celcius Daly knows too well the agonies of sectarian strife. To solve this string of murders, he must reach decades into the past, confronting a painful history that Ireland would prefer to forget.

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