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Surrender takes readers on a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering and the 'Welcome Home Hero' parades are over? Guilt, fear and brutality collide with love and acceptance as a diverse tribe of characters struggle to reconcile mythology with reality, and to find meaning in a uni...

Lin Hui and Cheung Mingzhu from Shenzhen in China, win scholarships to study at Queen's University in Belfast. Alina Balauru departs a poor farm in Romania for the promise of well-paid work in Northern Ireland. Three lives harbouring long-cherished dreams. Three lives headed for tragedy. Sheehan and his Serious Crimes Unit discover the body of one of the young Asian women in the garden of an upmarket residence. Confronted with violent Chinese ...

Lin Hui and Cheung Mingzhu from Shenzhen in China, win scholarships to study at Queen's University in Belfast. Alina Balauru departs a poor farm in Romania for the promise of well-paid work in Northern Ireland. Three lives harbouring long-cherished dreams. Three lives headed for tragedy. Sheehan and his Serious Crimes Unit discover the body of one of the young Asian women in the garden of an upmarket residence. Confronted with violent Chinese ...

A Spiritual Odyssey is the compelling story of a dramatic physical degeneration and a spiritual awakening. The author is given a year to live but has to wait ten agonising months for the liver transplant that might save his life. During this time, he finds himself questioning the nature of his life as he struggles to understand his growing spirituality. "Some of the medical descriptions chill the blood but the religious explorations are heart-...

I AM NEMEIN. I AM EMOTIONALLY DETACHED FROM MY KILLINGS. I AM NOT, THEREFORE, A MURDERER. I AM AN INSTRUMENT OF NEMESIS, A PUNISHER. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders. However, he describes the killings in lurid detail, and with such gloating relish, that he utterly negates his delusio...

Adrienne Davies visits Loftus House, home of her old friend Margaret and her difficult husband Edward. There's no love lost between him and his other houseguests, or indeed his own family. After a tension-packed evening, in the middle of the night someone screams ... A Country House. A Murder. Five suspects. Detective Chief Inspector Sheehan investigates. Will you guess who dunnit?

Elderly Wilhelm Huntzinger lies dead beside his wheelchair. Inspector Jim Sheehan must discover who among the residents of the Woodlands Care Home released the brake to send him plunging to his death: but does the answer lie in the German ex-officer's wartime history, or is it to be found nearer to home? The latest of the Inspector Sheehan series is a short story that can double as a party mystery game: create teams, read the story aloud, and ...

It's an ordinary day at Sam's roadside diner, with the usual mix of customers. But when the lights fail a gunshot rings out - and one of them lies dead. Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan must unravel a string of coincidences to determine who is the murderer.

I AM NEMEIN. I AM EMOTIONALLY DETACHED FROM MY KILLINGS. I AM NOT, THEREFORE, A MURDERER. I AM AN INSTRUMENT OF NEMESIS, A PUNISHER. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders. However, he describes the killings in lurid detail, and with such gloating relish, that he utterly negates his delusio...

Elderly Wilhelm Huntzinger lies dead beside his wheelchair. Inspector Jim Sheehan must discover who among the residents of the Woodlands Care Home released the brake to send him plunging to his death: but does the answer lie in the German ex-officer's wartime history, or is it to be found nearer to home? The latest of the Inspector Sheehan series is a short story that can double as a party mystery game: create teams, read the story aloud, and ...

The Coven Murders opens with a horrifying account of a ritual Black Mass with a human sacrifice in an abandoned church. Twenty-one years later, near an old ruined church in an area of outstanding natural beauty, Chief Inspector Sheehan and his team discover the skeleton of a young woman. But what seems initially to be a straightforward case, brings the team into conflict with a powerful Satanist who has plans to offer up to Satan another human...

The Coven Murders opens with a horrifying account of a ritual Black Mass with a human sacrifice in an abandoned church. Twenty-one years later, near an old ruined church in an area of outstanding natural beauty, Chief Inspector Sheehan and his team discover the skeleton of a young woman. But what seems initially to be a straightforward case, brings the team into conflict with a powerful Satanist who has plans to offer up to Satan another human...

Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan is faced with a Da-Vinci-Codesque series of killings. The murderer is profiled as someone with trauma in their past: but in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, the problem could turn out to be finding someone without such a history ...Brian O'Hare's INSPECTOR SHEEHAN MYSTERIES series gets off to a great start with this clever thriller.

A young priest's life spirals out of control when long-submerged memories of childhood abuse begin to surface. He seeks solace in a friendship with a beautiful seventeen-year-old-choir girl but this leads to a frenzied love affair that ends in disaster. Fallen Men touches on some dark themes but it is ultimately a novel of redemption.Fallen Men has been the recipient of two literary awards - Top Medallist Honours in the General Fiction categor...

Three people are murdered on separate Tuesday evenings at precisely 11.05. Random clues point to random suspects, but too many questions remain unanswered. Why 11.05pm for each killing? Is there any connection between these deaths and a rape that occurred at Queen's university twelve years before? What is the connection between the killings and Sergeant Stewart's mystery informant? Who is the violent stalker who twice nearly kills Detective Al...

A modern-day disciple. At first sight John Gillespie is an ordinary man from Northern Ireland, but he is one who has been gifted with extraordinary powers of healing. A little girl with irreparable brain damage was pronounced dead by two hospital specialists. Today she is a healthy teenager. A teenage boy whose spine was crushed by a lorry was diagnosed as permanently paralysed. He now plays football with his friends. Others whose lives were p...

Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan is faced with a Da-Vinci-Codesque series of killings. The murderer is profiled as someone with trauma in their past: but in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, the problem could turn out to be finding someone without such a history ... Brian O'Hare's INSPECTOR SHEEHAN MYSTERIES series gets off to a great start with this clever thriller.

Adrienne Davies visits Loftus House, home of her old friend Margaret and her difficult husband Edward. There's no love lost between him and his other houseguests, or indeed his own family. After a tension-packed evening, in the middle of the night someone screams ... A Country House. A Murder. Five suspects. Detective Chief Inspector Sheehan investigates. This compelling short story can be used as a murder game scenario at parties, or e...

A young priest's life spirals out of control when long-submerged memories of childhood abuse begin to surface. He seeks solace in a friendship with a beautiful seventeen-year-old-choir girl but this leads to a frenzied love affair that ends in disaster. Fallen Men touches on some dark themes but it is ultimately a novel of redemption. Fallen Men has been the recipient of two literary awards - Top Medallist Honours in the General Fiction ca...

It's an ordinary day at Sam's roadside diner, with the usual mix of customers. But when the lights fail a gunshot rings out - and one of them lies dead. Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan must unravel a string of coincidences to determine who is the murderer.