Brian O'Hare

• Nov-2024
• / General Fiction

Brian O'hare is one of the best thriller writers there is, he is up there with Rankin, Baldacci, Hallen Coban. ★★★★★ A Knight of the Realm is murdered. High-profile mourners will attend the funeral. One of them...

• Aug-2024
• / General Fiction

Thrilling and intriguing, all the way to the end. ★★★★★ A child buried alive. Three lawyers beaten to death. A judge murdered in his own home. DCI Jim Sheehan and Belfast's Serious Crimes Unit are called t...

• May-2024
• / General Fiction

You will not want to put it down. ★★★★★ When the owner of an antiques store is battered to death, Detective Sheehan thinks it's just another murder. But when he discovers two keys hidden in an ornamental w...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction

Incredibly addictive page-turner. ★★★★★ Detective Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan has given Belfast's Serious Crimes Unit everything — sleepless nights, a marriage to the job, and the relentless hunt for killers w...

• Nov-2023
• / Mystery

An adrenoline-fueled roller-coaster thrill ride from the first page to the last page! ★★★★★ Every Tuesday night at exactly 11:05, a ruthless serial killer strikes in Belfast. Detective Chief Inspector Jim ...

• Nov-2023
• / Mystery

A mind-bending thriller that is taut, believable and magnetic. ★★★★★ Belfast has seen its share of darkness — but nothing like this. When members of a coven are found murdered across the city, DCI Jim She...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction

Brilliantly written book that kept me gripped from beginning to end. ★★★★★ Three women chasing dreams. Three lives headed for tragedy. Lin Hui and Cheung Mingzhu leave Shenzhen, China, on scholarships to s...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction

A magnificent story that kept this reader turning the pages. ★★★★★ I am Nemein. I am not a murderer. I am an instrument of Nemesis — a punisher.The anonymous manifesto floods the Dark Web, each post laced...

• Nov-2022
• / Literary

In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Brian O'Hare's Surrender is a rich collection of coming—of—age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylv...

• Oct-2020
• / Mystery

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 d...

• Feb-2019
• / Law Enforcement

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 intelli...

• May-2018
• / Police Procedural

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 tea...

• Jun-2016
• / Mystery

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'...

• Mar-2016
• / Mystery

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 occ...

• Feb-2016
• / Christian

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 dis...

• Nov-2015
• / Mystery

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 t...

• Oct-2015
• / Mystery

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 with...

• Oct-2015
• / Mystery

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 so...