Brian Moore Books in Order

A blackmail scheme ends in murder, and a private investigator is left to sort through lies, money, and a dead redhead. It is Moore in early noir mode, quick, hardboiled, and eager to keep moving.

In Montreal, foreign agents are plotting to kidnap or kill an exiled political leader, and Mike Farrell gets pulled into the chase. The result is an early Cold War style thriller built on pursuit, danger, and divided loyalties.

After stumbling onto a killing in a Paris hotel, American drifter Noah Cain is blamed and forced to run. His search for the woman who can clear him sends him racing south through France with the police and crooks behind him.

Josh Camp comes to Barcelona after hearing that his friend and business partner is dead, and the beautiful Nina Fontana is waiting with a story he does not trust. The search for truth leads him into violence, betrayal, and danger.

Judith Hearne, a lonely middle-aged piano teacher, mistakes a widower's interest for the love she has long wanted. Moore follows her unraveling with tenderness and merciless clarity.

A trip to Majorca turns deadly as murder and intrigue close in around an outsider far from home. This late pulp thriller keeps the pressure on, using the island setting as a sunny trap.

Diarmuid Devine, a shy Catholic schoolmaster in Belfast, thinks love may finally be possible. Instead he meets embarrassment, cruelty, and his own painful self-knowledge in one of Moore's sharpest early novels.

A South American president is brought to Montreal for delicate brain surgery while assassins close in. Moore uses the medical setting and the city's winter tension to drive a fast, efficient political thriller.

Ginger Coffey brings his family from Ireland to Montreal convinced success is finally within reach. Instead he stumbles from job to job, and Moore makes his charm, self-delusion, and desperation both painful and very human.

Brendan Tierney wants the space to write his first serious novel, so he brings his widowed mother from Ireland to mind the children in New York. The arrangement exposes the selfishness, strain, and cultural fracture inside his family.

In wartime Belfast, seventeen-year-old Gavin Burke joins the air raid wardens and steps across the sectarian lines that shaped his childhood. It is a coming-of-age novel about war, class, friendship, and the shock of a larger world.

Over the course of one day in New York, Mary Dunne tries to hold on to her sense of self as memories and anxieties crowd in. Moore makes her inner life vivid, funny, and quietly frightening.

Diarmuid Devine, a shy Catholic schoolmaster in Belfast, thinks love may finally be possible. Instead he meets embarrassment, cruelty, and his own painful self-knowledge in one of Moore's sharpest early novels.

Irish writer Fergus Fadden arrives in California carrying old guilt and family baggage, then finds the past refusing to stay buried. Ghostly, comic, and melancholy, the novel turns exile and memory into a strange reckoning.

On a remote Irish island, a young priest is sent to force a monastery into line with sweeping church reforms. The conflict that follows is quiet, tense, and full of doubt, loyalty, and wounded faith.

Moore's documentary-style novel revisits the October Crisis in Quebec, from the kidnapping of James Cross to the murder of Pierre Laporte. It reads like a thriller while tracing the fear, ideology, and confusion of a city under pressure.

Historian Anthony Maloney dreams an enormous collection of Victorian treasures into existence in a California parking lot, then wakes to find it there. Moore turns an impossible premise into a lucid, unsettling story about obsession, fame, and ownership.

While waiting for her husband in Paris, Sheila Redden impulsively begins an affair with a younger American. Her sudden break from ordinary life becomes a searching novel about desire, freedom, and the cost of starting over.

Failed poet James Mangan discovers a link to a famous nineteenth-century namesake and heads west in Ireland to chase family legend. What starts as an ancestry quest becomes a sly, unsettling novel about identity, marriage, and self-invention.

Eileen Hughes is a quiet young woman from Northern Ireland whose life seems to open up when wealthy employers take an interest in her. London offers glamour and possibility, but also a painful education in power and desire.

Marie Davenport expects grief after her husband's boating accident, not mystery. When his body disappears and signs of a miracle begin to gather, Moore turns adultery, guilt, and belief into an eerie psychological thriller.

A French Jesuit journeys deep into seventeenth-century New France to reach a distant mission. The trip becomes a harsh test of faith, survival, and misunderstanding as European and Indigenous worlds collide.

Cardinal Stephen Bem survives an assassination attempt in an unnamed Eastern European state and finds himself trapped between church, state, and revolution. A compact political thriller, it turns questions of faith and compromise into real danger.

In Belfast, hotel manager Michael Dillon is forced by IRA gunmen to drive a bomb-laden car to work while his wife is held hostage. The setup is immediate and brutal, and every choice feels morally impossible.

On the fictional Caribbean island of Ganae, Father Paul Michel backs a young priest whose rise threatens a brutal ruler. Moore blends revolution, belief, and disillusion into a sharp political and spiritual drama.

Pierre Brossard, a former Vichy official long sheltered by church and political allies, is finally being hunted. As the net tightens across southern France, Moore turns a fugitive chase into a tense reckoning with guilt, complicity, and justice.

In 1850s France, Emmeline Lambert follows her illusionist husband on a mission tied to Napoleon III and unrest in Algeria. What begins as imperial theater becomes a searching story about faith, deception, and the cost of power.

Hours before a presidential debate, John Sheppard survives a crash on a remote Vermont road and uncovers a conspiracy reaching deep into American power. The novel mixes campaign suspense with supernatural questions about faith, freedom, and leadership.