Hays and Lyons Books in Order

When Gerard McCarthy fails to arrive for Christmas dinner, his sister calls the Garda and Sergeant Mulholland drives out to his clifftop caravan. Days later a brutally beaten body is discovered nearby, and Maureen Lyons's team must work out who wanted McCarthy gone and why the case keeps shifting.

Clifden's annual arts festival takes a grim turn when a man is found murdered in a bizarre way among the exhibits. Maureen Lyons soon learns the victim interests the British security services, and untangling why he was in Galway may matter as much as catching the local killer.

When hotel worker Aoife Gilpin stops on a lonely Connemara road to move an obstacle, she never makes it home. DI Maureen Lyons must dig into the victim's job, friendships and secrets by the bay to learn why an apparently ordinary woman was targeted.

A passing remark about a missing farmer turns sinister when his body is discovered wrapped and dumped in a bog. DI Maureen Lyons and her team probe family tensions over rough grazing land, drug grows and outside business interests to uncover who gained most from his death.

Gunfire shatters the quiet of Clifden one night, leaving rare book dealer Ann Sweeney dead in her seaside home. With no clear motive, DI Maureen Lyons must untangle Sweeney's eccentric, gun loving relatives and her secretive trade in valuable books to expose a calculating killer.

A body pulled from the Atlantic near Galway looks at first like an accident, until pathology proves otherwise. DI Maureen Lyons traces the victim to a remote coastal hamlet running a smooth bootleg operation, where tight-lipped locals and a vanished associate suggest darker currents offshore.

A car half buried by the tide on Ballyconneely Beach hides the body of a young woman and a clue to council corruption. When a second girl is abducted and the culprit starts taunting DI Maureen Lyons, the case becomes a race to stop a very public predator.

During the Galway Races, a successful bookmaker is robbed and shot, a crime that should have a simple motive. But when the missing cash turns up untouched and a disruptive officer undermines the team, DI Maureen Lyons must solve a knot of grudges on and off the track.

A woman's body is discovered in a holiday cottage on Ireland's west coast, a tiny gold ingot clutched in her hand. DI Maureen Lyons follows a cold trail from a flashy local shop owner to a web of cross border corruption worth millions, where witnesses have a habit of disappearing.

Maureen Lyons's first case as a newly promoted detective inspector goes badly wrong when a clumsy kidnap attempt turns into murder and the prime suspect slips away. A manhunt from Galway across Ireland forces her and Mick Hays to expose a wider extortion ring before it claims more lives.

On a stormy winter night a driver discovers a woman's body in a roadside ditch after clearing stones from a damaged bridge. As Hays and Lyons investigate, they uncover the victim's life as a sex worker and a long list of locals with reasons to keep quiet.

On the same winter day Galway detectives hear of a body found at the foot of a cliff and a tip about a major wages heist. With resources stretched, Mick Hays has to juggle a possible murder scene and a looming robbery before both crimes blow up in his face.

When a small plane carrying developer Gerald Fortune and two passengers crashes into bogland, it first looks like pilot error. Forensics revealing tampering turns it into homicide, and Maureen Lyons must sift Fortune's risky deals and bitter enemies to learn who wanted everyone on board dead.

The annual Connemara Pony Show grinds to a halt when a man is found dead in a horsebox. As Lyons and Hays investigate, they collide with powerful show organisers, a frightened teenage groom and a linked kidnapping that suggests the victim's respectable life was not what it seemed.

A home-care worker finds a reclusive pensioner dead in his armchair, his cottage ransacked and his body showing signs of torture. With nothing apparently stolen, Hays and Lyons must look beyond a bungled burglary to Ireland's criminal underworld and old deals finally coming due.