IRISH MYSTERIES: Mystery Readers Journal (24:2)

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Irish Mysteries

Volume 24, No. 2, Summer 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Ordinary Decent Criminals: Irish Noir Fiction in the 21st Century by Glenn Harper
• Is Sister Fidelma a Credible Historical Character? by Gail Egbers
• The Brighter Side of Irish Crime Writing by Dick Adler
• Guardians of the Peace by Jim Doherty

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Shadows of Guilt: Ireland in the 1950s by John Banville, aka Benjamin Black
• Distance Lends Perspective by Colin Bateman
• Billy Boyle Goes to Ireland by James R. Benn
• An Irish Heroine by Rhys Bowen
• Crime Pays—On the Page by Declan Burke
• No, Not the Blarney Stone by Ken Bruen
• An Irishman’s Lot by Doug M. Cummings
• The Importance of Being Irish by David Dickinson
• When Irish Writing Roots Are Showing… by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Where Fact Meets Fiction by Garbhan Downey
• Killing the Peace Process by Ruth Dudley Edwards
• The Roots of Murder by Tana French
• Rachel O’Reilly’s Murder by Jenny Friel
• Josephine Tey and Nuala Anne McGrail by Father Andrew M. Greeley
• Finding Mythic Ireland by Lyn Hamilton
• Foxes, Cabbages & the Ancient Laws of Ireland by Cora Harrison
• Stumbling on a Body in the Bog by Erin Hart
• How the Irish Created My Civilization by Jeremiah Healy
• I Owe My Life to an Irish Criminal by Eoin Hennigan
• Irish Soul by Tobsha Learner
• A Literary Tour of One Dublin Author by Stephen Leather
• The Irish in P.I. Frank Johnson’s Debut Outing by Ed Lynskey
• Casting a Cold Eye on the Gloss of Modern Ireland by K.T. McCaffrey
• Irish Connection by John McEvoy
• Patrolling the Border by Brian McGilloway
• The Absence of Death by Cormac Millar
• Writing and Ireland by Pat Mullan
• The Elusive Irishman by Teagan Oliver
• An Arresting Tale by Ralph Robb
• The Irish in Me by Les Roberts
• Balancing the Book by Zoë Sharp
• Lark and the Quaker Connection by Sheila Simonson
• Interwoven Irish by Therese Szymanski
• Irish Crime Writing: Truth Sells Better Than Fiction by Neville Thompson
• Sister Fidelma, 7th-Century Supersleuth by Peter Tremayne

COLUMNS

• In Short: Murder Most Irish by Marvin Lachman
• Just The Facts: Mole To Manhunter by Jim Doherty
• Children’s Hour: Irish Mysteries by Gay Toltl Kinman
• An Irish Author in the Golden Age: Freeman Wills Crofts by Philip Scowcroft
• MRI MAYHEM by Janet A. Rudolph
• Letters to the Editor
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph