Dead in Dublin — Jeremy Taylor

“Had! had!” Ten seconds later he was dead. This is the dramatic opening to Dead in Dublin, a fast moving murder mystery based in modern Dublin. Milan Schwab, a Czech language student dies in his American teacher's classroom. Daniel, the teacher, tries to piece together how he died - and most importantly, who killed him.
Dead in Dublin is a fast-moving comedy thriller with a range of nutty characters all living in the heady days of Ireland's boom years of the tiger economy.