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| Lisa Alber |
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Merrit Chase: a Californian searching for relatives in Ireland, in the County Clare mysteries |
| Vincent Banville |
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John Blaine: private
investigator in Dublin, Ireland |
| Colin Bateman |
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Dan Starkey: journalist
in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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The Small Bookseller with No Name who becomes an investigator when the detective agency next door goes out of business, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the Mystery Man series |
| Benjamin Black (John Banville) |
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Quirke: coroner in 1950s Dublin, Ireland |
| Ingrid Black |
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Saxon: former US FBI
agent turned true-crime writer, and Grace Fitzgerald, Detective Chief
Superintendent with the murder squad, in Dublin, Ireland |
| Conor Brady |
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Joe Swallow: detective sergeant in 1880s Dublin, Ireland |
| John Brady |
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Matt Minogue: police
sergeant detective in Dublin, Ireland |
| Ken Bruen |
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Jack Taylor: dismissed from the Garda Síochána (Irish police) for drinking, now finding things for people in Galway, Ireland, since “private eye” sounds too much like “informer” to the Irish |
| Paul Charles |
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Inspector Starrett: of the Garda Serious Crime Unit, in County Donegal, Ireland |
| Sheila Connolly |
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Maura Donovan, fulfilling her grandmother’s wish by returning from Boston to the original family home in the small town of Leap, Ireland, in the County Cork mysteries |
| Dicey Deere |
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Torrey Tunet: 28-year-old
translator from Boston, Massachusetts, stuck in Ballynagh, Ireland |
| Eilís Dillon |
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Mike Kenny: police
inspector in Dublin, Ireland |
| Roy French |
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Daniel Riordan: the
Raven, once the most feared paramilitary enforcer in Ireland |
| Bartholomew Gill |
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Peter McGarr:
police officer in Dublin, Ireland |
| Jonathan Harrington |
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Danny O’Flaherty:
American teacher researching his family’s roots in Ireland,
and in New York City |
| Cora Harrison |
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Reverend Mother Aquinas, in 1920s Cork, Ireland |
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Mara: a female judge
and lawgiver appointed by King Turlough Donn O’Brien in the
early 16th century, on the west coast of Ireland, in the Burren mysteries |
| Erin Hart |
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Cormac Maguire: Irish
archaeologist, and Nora Gavin, an American pathologist, in Ireland |
| Jack Higgins |
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Liam Devlin: IRA hero
in 1940s Ireland |
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Sean Dillon:
IRA enforcer turned British special agent in Ireland |
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Dougal Munro:
a brigadier, and Jack Carter, a captain, in 1940s Ireland |
| Casey Hill |
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Reilly Steel: US-trained CSI investigator in Dublin, Ireland |
| Declan Hughes |
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Ed Loy: Irish private investigator who has been living in Los Angeles, returning home to Dublin, Ireland |
| Brian McGilloway |
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Benedict Devlin:
Garda detective inspector, in the borderlands of Ireland |
| Claire McGowan |
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Paula Maguire: forensic psychologist, returning from London to Ballyterrin, Northern Ireland |
| Adrian McKinty |
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Sean Duffy: detective sergeant in 1980s Northern Ireland, in the Troubles Trilogy |
| Sam Millar |
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Karl Kane: private investigator
in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Stuart Neville |
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Jack Lennon: detective
inspector in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Niamh O’Connor |
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Jo Birmingham: detective inspector and single mother in Dublin, Ireland |
| Gerard O’Donovan |
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Mike Mulcahy, a detective inspector, and Siobhan Fallon, chief reporter for the Sunday Herald, in Dublin, Ireland |
| Victor O’Reilly |
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Hugo Fitzduane:
photographer and current occupant of his family’s ancient castle
in Ireland |
| Julie Parsons |
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Michael McLoughlin: detective inspector, later retired, in Dublin, Ireland |
| Louise Phillips |
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Dr. Kate Pearson: criminal psychologist working with the police, in Dublin, Ireland |
| Anthony J. Quinn |
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Celcius Daly: Catholic detective inspector in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Michael Russell |
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Stefan Gillespie: Garda detective sergeant in 1930s Dublin, Ireland |
| Ian Sansom |
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Israel Armstrong: Jewish
vegetarian from London, in charge of a mobile library in the village
of Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, in the Mobile Library mysteries |
| Peter Tremayne |
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Sister Fidelma:
7th century Celtic sister and legal advocate in Kildare, Ireland |
| Nancy Means Wright |
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Mary Wollstonecraft:
the 18th century English feminist, working as a governess at Mitchelstown
Castle, in County Cork, Ireland |
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