In the style of Benjamin Black, an evocative, literary crime thriller

Dublin, 1932. Detective Gillespie arrests Herr Keller under suspicion of carrying out illegal abortions and encounters Hannah Rosen trying to find her friend Susan, a Jewish woman who had become romantically involved with a priest. The bodies of a man and a woman are then found in the mountains. Are they that of Susan and the priest?

Until now, there has never been a full, accurate English translation of the epilogue to The Last Days of Mankind, German playwright Karl Kraus's early twentieth-century satirical play about the First World War. Yet the play's importance and influence is widely acknowledged and celebrated in Europe, for its uncompromising examination of human folly in the face of war and as a unique act of creativity and imagination, opening drama up to new challenges, techniques, and possibilities.

This translation is of the play's verse epilogue, The Last Night, which is a standalone...

Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It's unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns and explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry Gregory, is working for the IRA.
At home for Christmas, Stefan is abruptly called to Laragh, an isolated mountain town. A postman has disappeared, believed killed, and Laragh's Guards are hiding something. Stefan is the nearest Special Branch...

In the style of Benjamin Black, an evocative, literary crime thriller set in Ireland and London during the outbreak of WWII.