Brian McGilloway Books in Order

Pandora "Dora" Condron wakes to find that her seventeen year old daughter Ellie never came home from a party. When Ellie’s handbag is found dumped beside a road and the investigation stalls, Dora starts to question her distant husband, the police and everything she thought she knew, pushing herself toward dangerous choices in the hope of bringing her daughter back.

Inspector Benedict Devlin is called to a boarding house where Brooklyn Harris, once jailed for killing his teenage girlfriend, has been stabbed to death. As Devlin uncovers Harris’s pattern of grooming girls online, a shocking forensic result links the murder to a decades old crime and forces him to confront what justice means when the past refuses to stay buried.

Thirty years after taking part in an execution style murder in Scotland during the Troubles, Tony, Hugh and Karen are summoned to return to the scene and finally face what they did. A ferry journey from Northern Ireland back to that remote woodland forces each of them to confront unreliable memories, shifting loyalties and the long shadow of violence.

When a young man is found beaten to death in a riverside park, his only obvious link is a stamp from a local gay club. DS Lucy Black’s inquiry pulls her into clashes between LGBT activists, a hate preaching pastor, a rising far right group and former paramilitaries, as simmering prejudices threaten to explode into wider violence.

Visiting her injured father in a secure hospital on the River Foyle, DS Lucy Black helps haul a suited elderly man from the water and discovers he has already been embalmed. As she investigates this unsettling death and aids a neighbour’s badly beaten relative, Lucy uncovers links between vulnerable people, hidden profiteers and the stories institutions would rather keep quiet.

In deep midwinter, a sixteen year old girl is found dead on a railway line, and DS Lucy Black must piece together her final hours from a phone and social media trail. While a new boss scrutinises her every move and an old case still haunts her, Lucy’s search exposes how easily teenagers can be manipulated by those they think they can trust.

Inspector Devlin joins a team searching a small island on the River Foyle for one of the Disappeared, a man killed during the Troubles. Instead they uncover the remains of a baby who appears to have been murdered. Forbidden to investigate, Devlin follows his conscience, uncovering a tangle of old abuses, modern corruption and grief that has never quite been laid to rest.

During a snowy Derry winter, a young girl is found wandering in ancient woodland, barefoot, mute and covered in someone else’s blood. DS Lucy Black is the only officer she will trust. As Lucy tries to identify the child, she is pulled away from a high profile kidnapping case and forced to face how both investigations connect to the darkest parts of the city’s history and her own past.

Devlin is called to a burning barn and finds the charred body of a local drug dealer inside. Suspicion falls on a vigilante group calling themselves The Rising, even as the teenage son of one of Devlin’s former colleagues vanishes from a seaside campsite. When another dealer is killed, Devlin begins to see a more complex pattern that threatens both his community and his family.

At the opening of a new gold mine in Donegal, a controversial American politician is attacked and Inspector Devlin is blamed for the security failure. Days later an illegal immigrant is murdered near the border. Following the trail, Devlin uncovers a people smuggling ring and begins to suspect the mine is a front for something far more dangerous than mining.

A notorious ex con, James Kerr, returns to Devlin’s patch declaring he has found God, and Devlin is ordered to keep him away from trouble. When a young woman is beaten to death on a building site and then Kerr himself is found crucified, Devlin juggles office politics, family pressures and spiralling violence as he hunts a killer determined to settle old scores.

The body of teenager Angela Cashell is discovered on the Tyrone Donegal border, wearing a stranger’s gold ring and lying beside an old photograph. Inspector Benedict Devlin’s search for her killer leads from small town bars to remote farms and across the border, linking the new murder to the long ago disappearance of a prostitute and suspicions inside his own force.