Dublin Homicides Books in Order

The Dublin Homicides series shifts the action east to Ireland's capital, where DI Aidan Burke and DS Fiona Moore investigate murders that cut across banking, development and international connections. The books are still police procedurals, but the streets are busier and the crimes feel closer to big-city power.

In A Deadly Dividend a promising young banker is beaten to death in a city-centre alley after a night out. What first looks like random violence soon points to something targeted, as Burke and Moore discover awkward links to his workplace, a secret office romance and people who will do almost anything to keep financial dealings hidden.

A Fatal Liaison opens with two bodies connected to the Dublin mountains, one a well-known property developer and the other a mystery. Following the money leads the detectives into organised crime and suspects who are already halfway to mainland Europe. In The China Chapter, a house fire that should have been tragic but simple turns darker when the victim is found to have been shot first, and an airport job and a Shanghai freight flight throw in an international twist.

Later books push Fiona Moore further into the spotlight. Lethal In Small Doses follows her instincts when apparently natural deaths in care homes start to form a pattern, suggesting a serial killer hiding inside the system. In Plane Dead a passenger lands in Dublin already dead from a cocktail of drugs, leaving Moore to shoulder most of the work while Burke is distracted by a charismatic co-pilot. Passion for Murder returns the focus to the city streets and canals when a Spanish student is found dead near the Royal Canal, and a language school closes ranks around its staff and students.

These novels deal with sharper-edged crimes than the Galway books, but they keep the same clear, straightforward style. Much of the interest lies in the contrast between Burke's sometimes unconventional methods and Moore's patient, methodical approach, and in how they navigate bureaucracy, office politics and the pressure of headline cases while still trying to speak up for the victims.

Together the Dublin Homicides titles give a grounded tour of the city, from alleyways and suburbs to care homes, corporate offices and airport lounges, always seen through the eyes of working detectives.