10 must-read true crime books like Crowded House: The Definitive Story Behind the Gruesome Murder of Patricia O’Connor by Frank Greaney

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Crowded House: The Definitive Story Behind the Gruesome Murder of Patricia O’Connor

By: Frank Greaney

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In June 2017, a woman out picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains stumbled upon something in a ditch th…

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1. Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder

By: Kieran Crowley

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Ash Wednesday Beautiful, bubbly, 20-year-old Kim Antonakos was returning to her New York City apart… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Italian Girl

By: Lucinda Riley , Lucinda Edmonds

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rosanna Menici is just eleven years old when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her… read more

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  • audiobook

3. Almost the Perfect Murder: The Killing of Elaine O'Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account

By: Paul Williams

3.88

Format: 588 pages,

For over a year everyone assumed missing Dublin woman Elaine O'Hara had ended her own life. But aft… read more

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4. The Widow

By: Fiona Barton

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Hardcover

When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enable… read more

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5. Woman in the Making

By: None

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

1968. In a small town in the west of Ireland, a beautiful baby boy is born. He enjoys an idyllic co… read more

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6. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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7. The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes

3.57

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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9. Run Time

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Th… read more

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  • audiobook
"I had really begun to understand why people overeat. It isn't what they eat, it's why they eat it: because when you feel literally full from food, it's a brief respite from feeling figuratively empty…"

-Catherine Ryan Howard, Run Time

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10. The Murders at Fleat House

By: Lucinda Riley

4.12

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the multi-milli… read more

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  • audiobook
"He looked at her and smiled. ‘You know, one of the things I’ve thought about in here is the fact that during your life, I may have influenced your decision-making process far too much. Because I’m to…"

-Lucinda Riley, The Murders at Fleat House

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11. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

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  • audiobook
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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12. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

By: Ash Barty

4.23

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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17. From a Low and Quiet Sea

By: Donal Ryan

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more

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  • audiobook
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

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18. The Vanishing of Margaret Small

By: Neil Alexander

4.22

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her i… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Skin Deep

By: Liz Nugent

3.96

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

'I could probably have been an actress.It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.Isn't tha… read more

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  • audiobook
"People who go through life smiling miss out on the dignity of sorrow"

-Liz Nugent, Skin Deep

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20. The Monk: The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss

By: Paul Williams

4.24

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perce… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. The Witness

By: Nicola Tallant

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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22. Clash of the Clans: The rise of the Irish narcos and boxing’s dirty secret

By: Nicola Tallant

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

CLASH OF THE CLANS is a story that traces the emergence of the Irish mafia from the streets of Dubl… read more

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23. Gilligan: The Mob Boss Who Changed the Face of Organized Crime

By: Paul Williams

4.40

Format: 491 pages, Kindle Edition

John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is… read more

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24. The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man

By: Catherine Fegan

4.26

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children. I was los… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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25. My Brother Jason: The Untold Story of Jason Corbett’s Life and Brutal Murder by Tom and Molly Martens

By: Tracey Corbett-Lynch

4.39

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In August 2015 Limerick man Jason Corbett was murdered by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, … read more

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  • true crime
  • audiobook
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26. The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes

By: Pat Marry

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, includ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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27. Crowded House: The Definitive Story Behind the Gruesome Murder of Patricia O’Connor

By: Frank Greaney

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In June 2017, a woman out picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains stumbled upon something in a ditch th… read more

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Cover of Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords by Nicola Tallant

28. Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords

By: Nicola Tallant

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

COCAINE COWBOYS tells the story of Ireland’s love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Murder At Roaringwater

By: Nick Foster

4.05

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of a young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. In th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Black Widow: The Catherine Nevin Story by Niamh O'Connor

30. The Black Widow: The Catherine Nevin Story

By: Niamh O'Connor

3.67

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Number One Bestseller The incredible story of the murder which gripped the nation. When Tom Nevin w… read more

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  • true crime
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31. Everything

By: Kathleen Chada

4.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

On July 29, 2013, Kathleen Chada's husband, Sanjeev brutally murdered their two sons, Eoghan (10) a… read more

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3.67

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