Sheila Connolly's 'County Cork Mystery' series

American writer Sheila Connolly's "County Cork Mystery" series revolves around Maura Donovan, a Bostonian who goes to Ireland after the death of her grandmother, her last surviving relative, and decides to stay. She later inherits a pub in the town of Leap from a close friend of her grandmother.

Lars Mikkelsen in major Eurocrime series

Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing) returns to our screens in six-part pan-European crime drama The Team on More 4 and Walter Presents from 17 February.

BOTM: 'Holding' by Graham Norton

Our November Book of the Month: Holding.

Retired diplomat creates Belfast detective series

Development aid consultant and retired diplomat Derek Fee has published seven non-fiction books as well as five thrillers featuring a Belfast-based PSNI detective.

Andrew Hughes pens second historical crime novel

The Coroner's Daughter is Andrew Hughes's follow-up to his debut novel, The Convictions of John Delahunt (2013). Due to be published in February 2017, it features a young female sleuth operating at the dawn of modern forensic science.

BOTM: 'The Trespasser' by Tana French

Our October Book of the Month: The Trespasser.

The author: Tana French.

Hercule Poirot comes to Clonakilty, Co Cork

Published this month, Sophie Hannah's second Hercule Poirot novel, Closed Casket, has an Irish setting.

Graham Norton to discuss his crime novel in Dublin

Graham Norton will be in Dublin on 17 October to promote his debut novel. The evening event at the Mansion House on Dawson Street will include an interview and an audience Q&A. The €25 tickets include a signed copy of his new book.

Troubles thriller 'The Psalm Killer' reissued

Chris Petit's 1997 Belfast-based thriller The Psalm Killer has been reissued by Picador Classic.

Martin Compston to play serial killer on ITV

(C) World Productions – Photographer: Mark Bourdillon

Scottish actor and former professional footballer Martin Compston is to play a serial killer for ITV. Compton, who plays DS Steve Arnott in the BBC's Line Of Duty, will take on the role of American-born Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.

Tara Moore makes the switch to crime fiction

Tara Moore writes in other genres and under other names, but has recently switched to a series of crime thrillers beginning with Fade to Dead (May 2016).

Cosy mysteries from Bettystown

Romance writer Kemberlee Shortland has turned to crime fiction with her novel Murder in Mornington (2015), the first in a series of "Sassy O'Brien" cosy mysteries set around the seaside village of Bettystown in County Meath.

A murder mystery set in County Tyrone

Padraig O'Hannon's debut novel is the murder mystery Murder in County Tyrone (2015).

William Shaw's new novel: 'The Birdwatcher'

William Shaw takes a break from his "Breen and Tozer" series - featuring a second-generation Irish policeman in 1960s London - with a standalone crime novel out later this month, The Birdwatcher.

James Nesbitt as the NI killer dentist

The Secret, ITV's new four-part drama about a real-life crime in Northern Ireland, begins this Friday, 29 April 2016, at 9 pm.

A 'comedy noir' set in Brighton and Hove

Lucy Rutherford's debut crime novel A Bunch of Lies was published last month. It is set around Brighton and features a young Irishwoman, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, who came to England to have her child.

Tríona Walsh's debut novel via writers' fair

Tríona Walsh was one of 12 finalists at the 2015 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair. Her debut novel, the crime thriller The Dead Ringer, will be published on 20 June 2016 by Liberties Press.

'The Bridge' creator on his new show 'Marcella'

Anna Friel starts in ITV's new eight-part series Marcella which begins next week. Here its co-creator Hans Rosenfeldt explains how it came about.

Debut thriller from Catherine Ryan Howard

Catherine Ryan Howard's debut thriller Distress Signals is due to be published in the UK and Ireland on 5 May 2016.

Anna Friel in Nordic-style thriller 'Marcella'

Anna Friel plays a London police detective in the eight-part crime drama Marcella, coming soon to ITV.