Irish True Crime

New Edition. One man's story of life in The Joy – compulsive, chilling and frank.

Murder Inc. is the definitive account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. It describes the depravity and decadence of the gangs, their deadly rivaliries, and their reigns of terror over the community in which they lived.

On 4 January 1910, Joseph Heffernan was executed in Kilmainham Gaol for murdering Mary Walker in Mullingar.

Since that date, there have been whispers that Heffernan had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time and that an innocent man was hanged as a result.

Fully updated and revised with new photographs. The NO.1 Bestseller

Criminal Law

Michael Sheridan investigates the effects of murder in Ireland and the far-reaching consequences for the relatives of victims.

Murder is an unspeakable horror but even more sickening depths are reached by serial and psycho killers.

Cracking Crime by Niamh O'Connor, best selling author of The Black Widow, explores the fascinating and ground breaking work of Dr. Jim Donovan and his forensics team. A relatively new and intriguing science, Dr Donovan outlines the history of the development of various aspects of forensics and the sciences involved, from the study of dust to criminal profiling.

In July 2008 Sharon Collins, a housewife and mother-of-two from Ennis, Co. Clare, was found guilty of soliciting Egyptian poker dealer Essam Eid to kill her partner PJ Howard and his two sons so she could inherit his estimated wealth of EURO60 million.