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Conor Brady

A Hunt in Winter: A Joe Swallow Mystery

By Conor Brady - Published 2016 Published 2017

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Dublin detective Joe Swallow returns in a third volume, this time to solve a series of murderous attacks on young women, attacks that ...Read Review

The Eloquence of the Dead

By Conor Brady - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Conor Brady’s latest Joe Swallow procedural (after his debut in A June of Ordinary Murders, HNR 72) involves the 1880s Dublin Detective Sergeant ...Read Review

A June of Ordinary Murders

By Conor Brady - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It is 1887. Victoria is celebrating her 50th year as monarch, Ireland is sweltering under record heat, and among the scores of weather-related deaths ...Read Review