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Caimh McDonnell Books in Order

Browse Caimh McDonnell books in order, from the Dublin Trilogy to The Stranger Times, with brief summaries, series background and tips on where to start reading.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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A Man With One of Those Faces

by Caimh McDonnell

2016

Professional carer Paul Mulchrone survives two attempts on his life and ends up on the run with nurse Brigit Conroy and maverick cop Bunny McGarry. To stay alive, they must untangle a notorious Dublin crime that someone is very determined to keep buried.

Angels in the Moonlight

by Caimh McDonnell

2017

In 1999, Detective Bunny McGarry finally gets a shot at taking down Ireland's most ruthless armed robbery gang. When he falls for Simone, a singer with a dangerous past, he is forced to choose between the law, loyalty and the people he loves.

The Day That Never Comes

by Caimh McDonnell

2017

During a sweltering Dublin summer after the crash, a shadowy group starts murdering the bankers and developers who wrecked the economy. As protests boil over, Paul's new detective agency fights to survive and to uncover Bunny McGarry's dangerous link to the killings.

Disaster Inc

by Caimh McDonnell

2018

Bunny McGarry, officially dead and supposedly lying low in New York, foils a diner robbery and stumbles into a conspiracy involving former government operatives and murderous financiers. To keep Amy Daniels alive, he must outfight professionals who believe he should not exist.

Last Orders

by Caimh McDonnell

2018

Long-buried bodies in the Wicklow Mountains drag Bunny McGarry's darkest secrets into the light, while Paul and Brigit pull MCM Investigations into a feud with a rival agency. As both crises collide, they risk losing their business, their freedom and each other.

How To Send a Message

by Caimh McDonnell

2019

A collection of Caimh McDonnell's short fiction, bringing together Bunny McGarry capers, novellas about the outlaw Sisters of the Saint, and oddball tales featuring Smithy and Diller, all packed with fast-moving plots and sharply funny Irish noir.

I Have Sinned

by Caimh McDonnell

2019

Still searching for Simone in New York, Bunny tracks a priest who may know where the fugitive Sisters of the Saint are hiding. Protecting Father Gabriel from assassins while obeying strict no-drinking, no-swearing, no-violence rules turns out to be his hardest penance yet.

The Final Game

by Caimh McDonnell

2020

Eccentric millionaire Dorothy Graham dies and forces her awful relatives into a bizarre competition for her fortune. Dragged in as an unwilling contestant, Paul and Brigit juggle deadly family games with a bigger job: uncovering who really killed Dorothy.

The Quiet Man

by Caimh McDonnell

2020

Under the alias Anthony Rourke, Bunny gets himself locked inside a high-security Nevada prison to spring a mysterious inmate. As hostage nuns, corrupt officials and a sham UFO cult collide, he must engineer an audacious breakout before time and luck run out.

Welcome to Nowhere

by Caimh McDonnell

2020

Small-time hustler Smithy dodges a mob-style execution by agreeing to be the quarry in a leprechaun hunt for Wall Street high rollers. Years later, his revenge scheme catapults him and his friend Diller into a secret world of obsessive collectors and a desert fortress called Nowhere.

Dead Man's Sins

by Caimh McDonnell

2021

On enforced leave from the Gardaí, Bunny McGarry discovers that his late partner's dirty secrets are resurfacing to ruin his own name. At the same time, a frightened boy and an abused woman need his protection, and someone is framing Bunny for murder.

The Stranger Times

by Caimh McDonnell

2021

Newly divorced and desperate, Hannah Willis takes a job at The Stranger Times, a failing Manchester paper that prints bizarre paranormal stories. When a death hits close to home, the misfit newsroom discovers that some of their wildest tales are terrifyingly real.

Deccie Must Die

by Caimh McDonnell

2022

Brigit and Paul's struggling agency gets a lifeline when old friend Deccie Fadden, now a divisive talk-radio star, begs them to investigate serious death threats. Guarding a man who thrives on outrage drags MCM Investigations into the toxic world of modern fame and online fury.

Firewater Blues

by Caimh McDonnell

2022

Supposedly on sabbatical in 2000, Bunny agrees to help old acquaintance Rosie Flint find her vanished boyfriend. The search uncovers spies, political scheming and ruthless operators, forcing Bunny to confront uncomfortable truths about his past with help from a band of very capable nuns.

The Family Jewels

by Caimh McDonnell

2022

In the run-up to Christmas, a violent attack on an old friend is quietly ignored by the Gardaí, so Bunny starts digging himself. The case draws in a missing Italian heiress, upheaval at police headquarters and a furious teenager out for payback.

This Charming Man

by Caimh McDonnell

2022

Vampires are officially make-believe, yet something very like them is stalking Manchester. As secret magical factions panic, The Stranger Times staff investigate kidnappings, debts and occult trouble while their chaotic newsroom becomes the city's last, worst line of defence.

Escape From Victory

by Caimh McDonnell

2023

Bunny McGarry has bet his pride on St Jude's hopeless under-12s hurling team finally winning a match. When a crime job crashes into game day, he ends up chasing crooks with a minibus full of wild kids, trying to secure both justice and the scoreline.

Love Will Tear Us Apart

by Caimh McDonnell

2023

The Stranger Times' foul-tempered editor, Vincent Banecroft, becomes obsessed when signs suggest his supposedly dead wife might still be alive. While he chases ghosts, Hannah quits for a suspicious wellness retreat and the paper confronts missing people, murderous cherubs and cults meddling with love itself.

Other Plans

by Caimh McDonnell

2023

Trying to keep a low profile on the American backroads, Bunny and his companions stop at the wrong bar at exactly the wrong time. Mistaken for dangerous enemies by a heavily armed militia, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival as a cartel targets the Sisters of the Saint.

Bunny McGarry Shorts

by Caimh McDonnell

2024

A companion volume of Bunny McGarry stories, collecting capers that trace his path from rookie Garda to underworld legend. Packed with heists, festive chaos and the world's most chaotic kids' hurling team, it offers a lively side door into the Dublin Trilogy universe.

Fortunate Son

by Caimh McDonnell

2024

Bunny's idea of a holiday is ruined when he is dispatched to London to track runaway teen Sean Malone before the boy's terminally ill mother dies. Following thin clues through an unfamiliar city, he discovers Sean is tangled up with people who think he is expendable.

Relight My Fire

by Caimh McDonnell

2024

An emissary from elsewhere arrives to collect on Banecroft's many sins, threatening him with an eternity in a very literal Hellscape. As the deadline looms, The Stranger Times crew are drawn into grave-robbing, cryogenics, furious witches and gnomes that simply refuse to die.

Shorts

by Caimh McDonnell

2024

This collection gathers every Bunny McGarry short story and novella, from his disastrous first New Year's Eve on the job to present-day schemes. It is a fast, funny tour through his career, misbehaving hurling team and the friends who keep dragging him into trouble.

Ring the Bells

by Caimh McDonnell

2025

Christmas in Manchester turns apocalyptic when a book club meeting ends in triple murder and a librarian possessed by an ancient entity. With demon Santas, murderous books and a dangerous family secret in the mix, The Stranger Times team race to stop humanity being crossed off the list.

Tales from The Stranger Times: Volume 1

by Caimh McDonnell

2025

Short stories set in the world of The Stranger Times, drawn from the series' podcast. Lovelorn trolls, cursed books, misbehaving portals and other oddities showcase the magical underbelly of Manchester, plus a new novella that digs deeper into the series' larger mysteries.

New

The Big Steal

by Caimh McDonnell

2026

An upcoming MCM Investigations novel that reunites Brigit, Paul and their Dublin crew for another knotty case. Expect offbeat humour, a twisting mystery and more trouble for a detective agency that always seems one disaster away from collapse.

Where should I start?

If you want to start with Dublin crime capers: A Man With One of Those FacesThe Day That Never ComesLast Orders
If you like character backstory and Bunny-focused tales: Angels in the MoonlightDead Man's SinsFirewater BluesThe Family Jewels
If you prefer Bunny's American adventures: Disaster IncI Have SinnedThe Quiet ManOther Plans
If you're in the mood for supernatural Manchester weirdness: The Stranger TimesThis Charming ManLove Will Tear Us ApartRelight My Fire
If you want standalones and side doors into the universe: Welcome to NowhereThe Final GameShorts

Author bio

Caimh McDonnell was born in Limerick, grew up in Dublin and now calls Manchester home. Before he ever wrote a novel, he spent years chasing punchlines in comedy clubs instead of chasing criminals on the page.

He studied electronic engineering at Dublin City University and started out assembling computer servers, the kind of job that makes you very familiar with humming machines and badly lit offices. Stand-up offered more stories and better lighting, so he shifted careers and took his white hair and awkward name onto the Irish and UK comedy circuits.

On stage he toured widely, from regional theatres to festivals abroad, building a reputation for sharp observational jokes and a fondness for odd digressions. Along the way he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe several times and supported comics like Sarah Millican and Gary Delaney on tour, learning what keeps a late-night audience awake and listening.

Off stage he became a busy television writer. McDonnell has written for major British panel and comedy shows such as Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, A League of Their Own and The Sarah Millican Television Programme, as well as a lot of children's TV. He created the animated series Pet Squad, which picked up a nomination for a children's BAFTA, and he won a BBC sitcom writing competition that paired him with the creators of The Royle Family.

Crime fiction arrived a little later. In 2016 he published A Man With One of Those Faces, a comic crime novel set in Dublin about professional people-pleaser Paul Mulchrone, overqualified nurse Brigit Conroy and dangerously unfiltered detective Bunny McGarry. The book found readers quickly, picked up award attention and grew into what is now known, with a straight face, as the Dublin Trilogy, an expanding sequence of novels and novellas anchored around Bunny and his chaotic orbit.

Those Dublin books spin off in several directions. The McGarry Stateside novels follow Bunny to America as he searches for Simone and a missing order of outlaw nuns, while the MCM Investigations stories put Paul and Brigit in charge of a barely solvent private detective agency. Standalone titles like Welcome to Nowhere and the short fiction collections How To Send a Message and Bunny McGarry: Shorts fill in the gaps with heists, disasters and small acts of stubborn kindness.

Under the name C. K. McDonnell he also writes The Stranger Times, an urban fantasy series about a failing Manchester newspaper that accidentally becomes the frontline between everyday life and the supernatural. Blending newsroom farce with monsters, secret societies and ancient myths, the series has picked up award shortlists, a British Fantasy Award for its audio adaptation and television interest, all while keeping the jokes coming.

Across all of these worlds, certain threads repeat. McDonnell likes ordinary people who find themselves wildly out of their depth, institutions that are at best unreliable, and found families held together by sarcasm, late-night takeaways and an occasionally wobbly sense of justice. The books move fast, but he always leaves room for small, human moments amid the chaos.

These days he writes full time, usually from a shed in his garden, with a dog at his feet and his wife, publisher Elaine Ofori, close enough to keep the whole show on the road. When he is not working on another novel or short story, he still lends his voice to rugby crowds and podcasts, telling more stories about the strange, funny version of Ireland and Britain that lives in his head.

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