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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2012
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Stefan Gillespie

1 - The City of Shadows (Oct-2012)
2 - The City of Strangers (Oct-2013)
3 - The City of Lies (May-2017)
4 - The City in Darkness (Apr-2017)
5 - The City in Flames (Sep-2019)
6 - The City Under Siege (Oct-2020)
7 - The City Underground (Jul-2022)
8 - The City of God (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014‘She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the big room at the end of the long unlit corridor where...



  • New York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets… A brutal murder in an affluent suburb of Dublin and the unexplained death of an Irish diplomat in Manhattan… Garda Sergeant Stefan Gillespie is sent to Ameri...



  • An evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British ...



  • Dublin, September 1940. An IRA attempt to capture the British diplomatic bag on its way from Ireland to England leaves a Guard dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later a pitched battle between warring gangs erupts at one of Ireland's biggest ...



  • 1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence.Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won't explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his father's farm...



  • 1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man, Stefan extricates him from an embarrassing situation. Bu...



  • Ireland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gillespie to find out why, it must be in secret. But he meets a web of dece...



  • Italy, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazi-occupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a late-night connection in Zurich he sees a train that shouldn't be there. The ...



  • In this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as he makes his way through war-ravaged Europe to the German capital. He c...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Russell has published 9 books.

The next book by Michael Russell, The Dead City, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Michael Russell, The City of Shadows, was published in October 2012.

Yes. Michael Russell has 1 series.