Books for St. Patrick's Day

No shamrocks or leprechauns here - try one of these new Irish novels this March. From dark to ditzy, there's something for everyone.

Updated March 3, 2025
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The drowned
Banville, John
Paper Book
Galway confidential
Bruen, Ken
Paper Book
In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns. Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the...
Gun street girl
McKinty, Adrian.
Paper Book
The fourth in the bestselling Sean Duffy series from the 2014 Ned Kelly Award winner.
Kala : a novel
Walsh, Colin
Paper Book
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS * "An enthralling, evocative and heartfelt mystery" (Chris Whitaker) from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying...
Last call at the Local
Ruiz, Sarah Grunder
Paper Book
Raine Hart is used to the challenges of living with ADHD. It's why she ditched her life in Boston to busk around Europe as a traveling musician. No boss. No schedule. No one to disappoint but herself. But when a careless mistake in Ireland leaves her unable to perform, she sees no other option but...
Love at first book
McKinlay, Jenn
Paper Book
When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author's prickly son... until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading. Emily...
Morbidly yours
Fairbanks, Ivy
Paper Book
The unmissable TikTok sensation! The perfect opposites attract, grumpy x sunshine romance to fall in love with this summer. He has to marry by his thirty-fifth birthday. She's sworn off love... Painfully shy Callum Flannelly would rather dive into an open grave than...
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisin.
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction From an unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. For fans of Claire Keegan and Emma Donoghue. ...
A stolen child
Taylor, Sarah Stewart
Paper Book
"Taylor presents an appealingly nuanced twist on the traditional police procedural." -The Washington Post Sarah Stewart Taylor is known for her atmospheric portrayal of an American detective in Ireland, and her critically acclaimed series returns with A Stolen...
Trust her
Berry, Flynn
Paper Book
Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. Though Tessa is haunted by the abrupt and violent end to her old life, she does her best to immerse herself in the...
When we were silent
McPhillips, Fiona
Paper Book
\"I'm not here for prestige. I'm here for revenge.\" Lou Manson is an outsider when she joins the final-year class at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. Beyond the granite pillars and the wrought-iron gates is a world of wealth, privilege and...
You have gone too far
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
With the haunting, moody prose of Tana French and the compulsive storytelling of Dervla McTiernan or Ann Cleeves, bestselling author Carlene O'Connor lures readers to a remote village on Ireland's southwest coast, where winding windswept roads open to spectacular views of rugged cliffs against...

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