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Audiobooks Narrated by Stephen Daly
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"From the murky corridors of power to the empty streets of our ghost estates, Frank Connolly exposes the Ireland that decades of corruption built. Drawing on fifteen years as an investigative journalist with The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Mail on Sunday, Connolly charts the scandals that shook the State; from Charles Haughey’s tenure to Bertie Ahern’s 2008 resignation. His investigations helped trigger tribunals that revealed cronyism, illicit payments, and the abuse of office by politicians and business elites alike.
Exposed unearths the continuity of corruption and greed in Ireland: the Moriarty Tribunal’s findings on Michael Lowry, Garda misconduct in the North-West, and the policies that seeded our disastrous housing crisis. Connolly shows how one government after another enriched the few while denying a generation the right to secure, affordable homes.
Sharp, unflinching, and informed by first-hand reporting, Exposed is more than a political exposé. It’s a cautionary tale for today’s Ireland, challenging readers to confront the structures of power and demand accountability from those at the top."
"On a balmy July evening in 1972, to the sound of The Dubliners, Muhammad Ali climbed through the ropes to fight Al ‘Blue’ Lewis at Croke Park. The most famous athlete in the world had somehow been inveigled to Ireland by Butty Sugrue, a charismatic entrepreneur who was ridiculed for trying to do the impossible right up to the moment Ali and his entourage touched down at Dublin Airport. And so began a week of the most glorious mayhem, as ‘the Champ’ charmed the Irish people.
Ali could be found jogging along Wicklow lanes, strolling into The Old Stand pub, chatting with street cleaners, and paying an early morning visit to the GPO to receive a history lesson about the Easter Rising. No matter where he fetched up, wonderful chaos ensued. Traffic stopped. Crowds gathered. The greatest show on earth had come to town.
Through interviews with dozens of those Ali met and worked with over the course of those seven unforgettable days, Dave Hannigan has pieced together an enthralling narrative of one of the most unique events in Irish sporting history."
"From the author of Shadowplay, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, The Costa Novel Prize and Novel of the Year winner at the An Post Irish Book Awards.
Inishowen is a story of love found late, of hidden connections and a journey that changes three lives forever. There's Inspector Martin Aitken whose life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos. There are terrible things growing inside his house and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. There's Ellen Donelly, a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother, and escape her husband. Milton Amery is her husband, an unfaithful New York plastic surgeon. All three of their roads lead to Inishowen - a mysterious place that holds secrets that can unlock the heart.
‘A vast page-turner, full of compassion, laughter and zest for the human condition, as well as a rattling good story.’ — Irish Times
‘Ireland’s greatest storyteller.’ — The Sunday Independent
‘One of the best writers working today.’ – Alice Walker
“A powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“This is a tremendous book…affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny.” SPECTATOR"
"These cases might prove to be West's toughest yet…
Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West could do with a break. He's had his fill of complicated cases and wants nothing more than to settle down with his fiancEe. But life has a habit of getting in the way…Two new cases come in: A hit and run where the family of the victim act suspiciously and a missing woman who is found dead from natural causes until the post-mortem suggests foul play. With an investigation into both cases going nowhere, the last thing West or his team need are further complications – they certainly don't need human body parts turning up but that's what they get. Everybody avoids using the words… serial killer. With no motives, no clues and contradictory evidence, is West destined to fail this time?
No Easy Answer is a murder mystery with a touch of romance, set in the Dublin suburbs."
"Forgiveness isn't an option...
Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner answer an emergency call from St Monica's church and discover a dead body suspended from the beams in front of the altar.
The victim's fingerprints show that the man is Ian Moore, recently released from prison after serving time for rape. Revenge seems like the obvious motive for his murder, but the list of suspects grows as the case takes an unexpected twist.
Is the killer someone who believes they are doing God's work?
With pressure from archbishops, bishops, priests and Inspector Morrison to get the case solved quickly, West and his team have their work cut out…
No Crime Forgotten is a murder mystery with a touch of romance, set in the Dublin suburbs. It will appeal to fans of authors such as Peter James, LJ Ross and Ruth Rendall."
"Revenge can take a lifetime...
When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner, Garda Andrews, are called to a suspicious death they are shocked to find the small body of a child abandoned in a suitcase.
Who is she? No child has been reported missing.
Their search reaches outside Ireland but without success and soon another dead body takes their attention. There is a surfeit of suspects this time, but as the case evolves, the two detectives are stunned where it leads.
Meanwhile, someone is making trouble for Edel Johnson, and she is forced, eventually, to ask West for help.
Can West sort personal problems, solve professional cases and restore peace to Foxrock?
A murder mystery with a touch of romance, set in the Dublin suburbs. It will appeal to fans of authors such as Peter James, LJ Ross and Ruth Rendall."
"NO PAST FORGIVEN is the third audiobook in the Dublin Murder mystery series. It will appeal to fans of authors such as Peter James, LJ Ross and Ruth Rendall.
Crime and criminals keep getting in the way of Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West's personal life. The woman he loves is living in his house, in his spare bedroom. It should be simple, but it isn't. He has a solution. A romantic weekend away, in a lighthouse on Clare Island. A stunning place, a beautiful woman. What could be more perfect? When one of the islanders dies in a bizarre and a tragic accident, West is roped in to help. But it isn't an accident, and there is more than one suspect. There's also more than one secret. Can West solve the case before someone else dies?"
"No Obvious Cause is the second book in the Dublin Murder mystery series and will appeal to fans of authors such as Peter James, LJ Ross and Ruth Rendall.
A murder followed by a series of random, motiveless crimes leave Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his team puzzled. When Edel Johnson arrives at the scene of a crime Mike is taken aback, more so when he discovers she is now working with a victim support group. He has feelings for her, but he is the garda who investigated her husband's murder, and their relationship is complicated. With crime in Dublin's suburbs at an all-time high, and his superiors breathing down his neck, West doesn't need the distraction. But someone wants Edel out of the way, and it's up to West to find out who…"
"NO SIMPLE DEATH is a murder mystery with a touch of romance, set in the Dublin suburbs. It will appeal to fans of authors such as Peter James, LJ Ross and Ruth Rendall.
When Detective Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a Dublin graveyard, suspicion immediately falls on a local woman, Edel Johnson, whose husband disappeared some months before. But then she disappears. Evidence leads West to a small village in Cornwall, but when he arrives, he finds Edel has got there before him. Her explanation seems to make sense but as West begins to think his suspicions of her are unfounded, she disappears again. Is she guilty? West, fighting an unsuitable attraction, doesn't want to believe it. But the case against her is growing. Back in Dublin, his team uncover evidence of blackmail and illegal drugs involving Edel's husband. When another man is murdered, she, once again, comes under suspicion."
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