Welcome to Nowhere

The image of the book cover for Welcome to Nowhere by Caimh McDonnell 

A red background there's a signpost in the centre with the Nowhere from the title on an arrowed sign at the to of it. Sitting, with their back against the solid wood signpost there's a smiling, brown furred primate clutching a large glass jar.

When a gambling debt puts him between a rock and a swim in the Hudson with concrete shoes, Smithy has no choice but to take the worst job imaginable. The gig – as prey in leprechaun hunt for a bunch of Wallstreet jerks – goes as badly as it sounds. He could leave it there and write it off...Read more

Other Plans

The book cover for Other Plans by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red and black background with panels that look sort of like windows. There's a treeline with a large white moon showing above it, a bull with white horns and a very grumpy look on its face and a motorbike on a white stretch of road. The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.

How much trouble can you possibly get into just stopping to use a restroom?

As it turns out, an awful lot. Bunny and co are supposed to be keeping a low profile, but nature calls and ironically, one of their...Read more

The Quiet Man

The book cover for The Quiet Man by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red and black background with panels at the bottom that look sort of like windows. There's a large snake, mouth open with fangs showing, a barred cell door, and some cards and gambling chips. The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

Getting into prison is easy, it’s getting out that’s tricky.

Almost everyone in prison will tell you they’re in there for a crime they didn’t commit, but Anthony Rourke really means it. That’s because he’s actually Bunny McGarry, who has got himself into one of Nevada’s finest...Read more

I Have Sinned

The book cover for I Have Sinned by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red and black background with panels at the bottom that look sort of like windows. There's the silhouette of a male figure, with a white dog collar showing, an arm holding a gun, and a bridge (?The Golden Gate Bridge - not sure). The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

Bunny McGarry is a man on a mission. He left behind his life in Ireland to go to New York to find the woman he loves, who happens to have a lot of very dangerous people looking for her. The good news is that they don’t know where she is, the bad news is that Bunny doesn’t either and the...Read more

The Lodger

The book cover of The Lodger by Gabriel Bergmoser is from the audio version that has an Only From Audible yellow strip across the bottom right corner.

The image is of this silhouette of a male figure standing with his back to the viewer, arms out from his side looking towards an old shearing shed, grain bin and windmill, with a few trees dotted around. The view behind is across a flat plain, the sky above dark purple, fading downwards to yellow and pinkish in colour.

Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic...Read more

The Consequence

The book cover of The Consequence by Gabriel Bergmoser is from the audio version that has an Only From Audible yellow strip across the bottom right corner.

The image is of a red and yellow, firey sky above a suburban street with lit streetlamps and a complicated grid of electricity and telephone wires above. There are cars parked, trees and glimpses of houses.

To rogue ex-cop Jack Carlin, running a thug out of town and giving his stolen money to a kid struggling to escape the criminal lifestyle is all in a day’s work. Until it turns out the money belonged to a dangerous drug cartel seeking revenge against anybody who might have been involved in...Read more

The Luckiest Guy Alive

The cover for John Cooper Clarke's The Luckiest Guy Alive, which is mostly in grey colours, with the author's name at the top and the book title at the bottom in a form that looks like Scrabble tiles. In the centre is the image of the author, wearing black as usual, sunglasses as usual, and he's standing legs apart slightly off centre from the viewer with one arm held up in front of his body. His hair is gloriously messy.

The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr. John Cooper Clarke for several decades3and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" to a hymn to the seductive...Read more

Friends of Dorothy

The book cover of Friends of Dorothy by Sandi Toksvig shows a small two seater red couch with a small rainbow pillow on it, against a blue wall and yellow floor. There is a pair of shoes, a pair of boots and a pair of slippers under the couch which is a bit battered and torn. The title of the book is in a rainbow sort of shape at the top, and the author's name at the bottom.

After much searching, the happily married young couple, Amber and Stevie think they have found the perfect spot in Grimaldi Square. Despite the rundown pub across the way, the overgrown garden and a decidedly nosy neighbour, number 4 is the house of their dreams. Stevie, a woman who has...Read more

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We Solve Murders

The book cover for We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (audio version) is a white background with the author's name in large lettering at the top, book name at the bottom in large black lettering, and the tagline '#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Thursday Murder Club'. 

To the left of the cover there's a half orange sphere, with the barrel of a gun across the bottom of it, and a cat sat at the top just in front of the gun sight. The cat and the barrel are glowing slightly orange as well.

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now...Read more

The Sentence is Death

The book cover of the audio version of The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz is on a bright red background with an old style arch bridge across the top, with two male figures standing by the ornate railings. There is shrubbery at either end of the bridge and the book title and author's name are displayed over and around the bridge in very large lettering.

"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…"

These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer. Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine – a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise....Read more

Disaster Inc

The book cover for Disaster Inc by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red and black background divided into panels with the red ones at the bottom showing a glass of (presumably) Guinness, the Statue of Liberty and a handgun in each of them. The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

All Bunny McGarry wants is a spot of breakfast and a decent cup of tea. So imagine how annoyed he gets when two masked men attempt to rob the New York diner he is in? Unfortunately, dealing with that problem just leads to a whole lot more. One of the diner’s other customers isn’t who she...Read more

A Man's Head

The book cover of the audio version of A Man's Head by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is a dusky, foggy view of a city skyline with the hint of sun over the top of a main tower at the back. There's a river with an old, ornate bridge over it in the centre of the image, and a small boat heading towards it.

Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. As his audacious plan to uncover the truth unfolds, he encounters rich American expatriates, some truly dangerous characters, and their hidden motives.Read more

Deccie Must Die

The book cover for Deccis Must Die by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with a large old fashioned style stand microphone surrounded by a white gun sight styled target. The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

Some people have no appreciation of the fundamentals of the fame game…

MCM Investigations are back! Although Brigit isn’t sure for how long. Money is tight, business is slow and her partner, Paul, has been temporarily crippled due to her attempts to be in two places at once; one...Read more

The Final Game

The book cover for The Final Game by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with two black dice with white dots on them rolled together at the centre bottom, the one dot on one of the dice is glowing. The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

Dorothy Graham is dead. This is hugely inconvenient, not least for her. Luckily, she has planned for this eventuality. Now, if any of her truly dreadful family want to get their hands on her money, they will have to do so via a fiendishly difficult and frankly bizarre competition of Dorothy...Read more

The Family Jewels

The book cover for The Family Jewels by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with a Santa figure leaning to the left in a swipe of white. The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font, with a small white snowflake beside 'The'.

Bah Humbug!

It’s almost Christmas and Bunny McGarry is not in the festive spirit. His mood is not improved when an old friend becomes the victim of a violent assault and, for reasons he can’t understand, the police force he is a member of has decided not to investigate. Getting...Read more

Firewater Blues

The book cover for Firewater Blues by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with a bottle leaning to the right at the bottom centre. It has a rag stuck into the bottle, hanging out of the top with what looks like flames coming up from it (the image is all black and white). The title of the book in centre at the top in a large, uneven font.

Be careful who you love …

It’s the year 2000 and while Bunny McGarry is theoretically on sabbatical from the police, he just can’t help sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong.

Rosie Flint is an old acquaintance of Bunny’s whose boyfriend mysteriously disappears...Read more

Dead Man's Sins

The book cover for Dead Man's Sins by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with the silhouette of a security camera, top right and the title of the book in centre in a large, uneven font. The "i" in Sins has been replaced by an upright, large knife, sticking into the black panel at the bottom where the author's name is laid out.

How far would you go to protect a dead man?

It’s the year 2000 in Dublin and, following some traumatic events, Detective Bunny McGarry is taking a well-earned break from the force. However, just because you’re not looking for trouble doesn’t mean trouble isn’t looking for you....Read more

Last Orders

The book cover for Last Orders by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with the silhouette of a gravestone in the centre / bottom. There's a raven stood on top of it, and the words 'Bunny McGarry RIP' on the stone. The title of the book is top centre in a large, uneven font.

As a wise man once said, just because you're done with the past, doesn't mean the past is done with you.

Paul can't let an incident from his past go. When he finds out a rival detective agency played a key role in it, he drags MCM Investigations into a blood feud that they can't...Read more

Angels in the Moonlight

The book cover for Angels in the Moonlight by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background with a large white circle (?moon) in the background and an arm extended from the right holding a handgun. There is a shovel in the bottom left, all the elements within lines that look like window panes. The title of the book is bottom right in a large, uneven font.

For Detective Bunny McGarry, life is complicated, and it is about to get more so.

It’s 1999 and his hard won reputation amongst Dublin’s criminal fraternity, for being a massive pain the backside, is unfortunately shared by his bosses. His partner has a career-threatening...Read more

The Day That Never Comes

The book cover for The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The image has a red background and the outline of a city skyline with buildings, cranes, towers and spires at the top (inverted) and at the bottom. The title of the book is in the centre in a large, uneven font.

Remember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what – someone is killing them.

Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead, activists have taken over the...Read more

A Man With One of Those Faces

The book cover for A Man With One Of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell (near as I can get it Caimh is pronounced KEE-va or KWEE-va).

The cover is a silhouette of a man's head and shoulders against a red background, with the title of the book superimposed on the silhouette in a combination of red and white lettering, the typeface being big, bold and slightly uneven.

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident.

The second time was deliberate.

Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence....Read more

The Yellow Dog

The book cover of the audio version of The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is a blurred view of a green door with a large lock on it and a woman, partly in shadow, standing in front of it. She's holding a cigarette and wearing a bright floral dress.

There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quivering nervously at the slight­est word, were the very image of a scullery maid accustomed to hardship. And yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints of...Read more

Dead Girl Walking

The image of the book cover for Dead Girl Walking by Christopher Brookmyre includes the quote 'Chilling, compelling. Brookmyre is unique. Mark Billingham '.

The image is of a woman playing a violin with a swirling dress / coat behind her. The to half of the background is bright, textured pink, the bottom purple with the heads and shoulders of indistinct people looking upwards.

Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes.

Meanwhile, journalist Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from...Read more

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

The book cover of the audio version of The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is a shot of a man on a street corner. He's wearing a short coat, has his hands in his pockets and is mostly in shadow.

On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.

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The Late Monsieur Gallet

The book cover of the audio version of The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is a shot of a building with a neon sign down the side that says 'hotel'.

In the third Maigret mystery, the circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's death all seem fake: the name he was traveling under, his presumed profession, and, more worryingly, his family's grief. Their haughtiness seems to hide ambiguous feelings about the hapless man. Soon Maigret discovers the...Read more

I Wanna Be Yours

The cover for John Cooper Clarke's I Wanna Be Yours, is an image of the author standing side on looking towards the right. He's got his hands in the pockets of his black suit and is looking slightly upwards. The author's name and book title are to the left against a matt grey background

Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator.

At 5' 11' (8 stone, 32 inch chest, 27 inch waist), in trademark suit jacket, skin-tight drainpipes and dark glasses, with jet-black back-combed hair and mouth full of gold teeth, John...Read more

The Carter of 'La Providence'

The book cover of the audio version of The Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is of a lone figure in a coat and hat leaning against something in a darkened room

What was the woman doing here? Why was her body found in a stable, wearing pearl earrings, a stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes?

She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening. But how? And why? No one had heard a...Read more

Pietr the Latvian

The book cover of the audio version of Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon has a small tagline 'Inspector Maigret'. The image is of a lone figure in a coat and hat looking out over a flat beach and sea. Everything is grey and gloomy looking

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series.

What Maigret sought, and what he waited and watched out for, was the crack in the wall. In other words, the instant when the human being comes out from behind the opponent.

Who is Pietr the Latvian? Is he a...Read more