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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2007
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Derry Murder Mystery

1 - You'll Get Yours (Jul-2023)
2 - Death in Small Measures (Dec-2023)

The Derry Women

1 - An Embarrassment of Riches (Oct-2007)
2 - Hand in the Till (Jan-2011)
3 - Fleeing The Jurisdiction (Sep-2012)
4 - Best Served Frozen (Jul-2014)
5 - Static Cling (Dec-2015)
6 - Emergency Exit (May-2017)
6.5 - Table For Nine At Kebabalicious (Sep-2017)
6.6 - The Way To A Man's Heart Or Strange Things On Plates (Mar-2018)
7 - The Secret of Ursula's Stew (Nov-2019)
8 - Useless (Sep-2020)
9 - When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling (Apr-2021)
10 - A Very Fionnuala Christmas (Apr-2021)
11 - A Backstitch in Spacetime (Nov-2020)
12 - Wind Chill: The Many Secrets of Ursula's Irish Stew (Jul-2021)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning.

    Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youth...



  • "Comic Irish writing at its best"--Colin Quinn, comedian.


    "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland are history, and in the city of Derry, former foes Catholics and Protestants are living happily side by side. Or are they?


    Harde...



  • It's danger on the high seas for the Barnetts, but will it come from the authorities, Mother Nature or family Flood?
    In Wisconsin six years ago, Ursula Barnett accidentally defrauded her local church of $100,000. The statue of limitations is inchi...



  • Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but hardened mother of seven Fionnuala Flood plans on serving hers up frozen. Or so she thinks.The bells are ringing out in Derry, Northern Ireland, as the dirt-poor Floods and rich and entitled Riddells p...



  • PLEASE NOTE: Although this book is part of the IRISH LOTTERY SERIES, there is no cliffhanger. It is true that the characters get older as the series progresses, but each book is a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous bo...



  • Destination: nowhere.
    Just what are the career alternatives for a disenchanted flight attendant? And after a decade of wrong choices and loser boyfriends, can she finally grow up and nab Mr. Right?
    Gretchen Barnett, slogging daily through the...



  • The Floods are shopping down the town, and Fionnuala is gasping! She wants a cup of tea, milky with three sugars, at the Kebabalicious. The fast food chain has attempted to go upmaket with a swanky new self-serve tea and coffee corner, and Fionnuala ...



  • PLEASE NOTE: Although this novelette is part of the IRISH LOTTERY SERIES, it's a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.Maybe they should've said grace beforehand...?The extended Flood family are in for a surprise. ...



  • Although this novel is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it's a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.Even Ursula is shocked when she discovers the secret of her Irish stew. But just what is that secret...?At the hei...






  • Fionnuala is mortified when son Padraig's two front teeth are knocked out in a common street brawl. Whatever will the neighbors think? The dentist's waiting list is months long, so she must go private. But where will she get the money?While desperate...




  • Although this novella is part of the DERRY WOMEN SERIES, it's a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous books. Hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood is in raptures when she hears sons Lorcan and Eoin are coming back home to D...



  • Derry girls, women, wee boys, hard men, they're all here in the these three stand alone short works from the Derry Women Series. Previously released as a short story (Table For Nine At Kebablicious), a novelette (The Way to A Man's Heart or Strange T...



  • Even Ursula is shocked when she discovers the secret of her Irish stew. But just what is that secret...?At the height of the Cold War, St. Patrick's Day is swiftly approaching the US Naval air base perched on the lava fields of Iceland. Derry woman U...



  • Supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps has been strangled, stripped to her underwear, and her body forced into a gruesome position atop one of the cannons of Derry's historic city walls. For seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin and his ragtag team from the Se...



  • It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found dead the morning after a raucous party in the family's back garden pub. But the woman had a terminal illness and would have been dead before the year was out anyway. Why the hurry...?F...



  • DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D'Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless wino who spent his days hanging out on the street...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Hansen has published 17 books.

The next book by Gerald Hansen, Dead Quick, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches, was published in October 2007.

Yes. Gerald Hansen has 2 series.