Gordon Thomas (1933–2017)

Based for many years in County Wicklow in Ireland, the Welsh writer Gordon Thomas (1933–2017) was best known as an investigative journalist and prolific author on secret intelligence topics. He also wrote five thrillers featuring Mossad secret agent David Morton.

New RTÉ documentary series 'The Guards'

A new two-part TV documentary shadows police officers in Dublin city centre as they handle street crime and major public events. RTÉ and Zucca Films had "exclusive access to officers working on the ground" over two years. The Guards will be shown on RTÉ 2 on 17 and 24 May 2016 at 9.55 pm.

TV3 documentary on Toscan Du Plantier case

A new four-part documentary by leading Irish film director Jim Sheridan about the Sophie Toscan Du Plantier murder case is currently in post-production.

James Nesbitt to play killer dentist

Update, 20 April 2016: since this post, ITV has announced that The Secret will be shown starting on 29 April 2016 at 9 p.m.

Filming begins in Northern Ireland next month of The Secret, a TV drama based on Deric Henderson's best-selling true-crime book Let This Be Our Secret.

James Nesbitt stars as Colin Howell, a respectable Coleraine dentist who becomes a killer in partnership with his lover, Hazel Buchanan (played by Genevieve O'Reilly).

New Paul Williams book on Graham Dwyer case

Paul Williams has joined the growing list of crime journalists to write a book about the notorious Graham Dwyer murder case.

Innocence Project fights miscarriages of justice

The Irish Innocence Project made the headlines earlier this year after it achieved its first exoneration: a posthumous pardon for Harry Gleeson, who was convicted and hanged for a murder in 1941. But its work doesn't stop there.

The framing of Harry Gleeson

The Framing of Harry Gleeson is a new true-crime book by journalist Kieran Fagan about an Irish murder case from three quarters of a century ago.

Life and death in the Garda sub-aqua team

Tosh Lavery's new autobiography recalls his personal life and a 30-year career in the Garda Sub-Aqua Unit...

Blasts from the past... Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin (12 December 1803 - 12 June 1840)

A poet, playwright and journalist, Gerald Griffin's most famous work is his novel The Collegians. Yet it's much better known today in its stage adaptation by Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn.

Hay Festival has a feast of crime

This year's Hay Festival will have a big-screening of the whole of series two of Peaky Blinders starring Cillian Murphy. The gangster drama's creator, Steven Knight, talks to Alan Yentob on the same day (22 May).

'Numb': diary of a real killer or a hoax?

Did a British journalist live a double life as a psychopathic serial killer? That's the amazing claim of Numb: Diary Of A War Correspondent. 

The new book claims to be based on the diaries of a real-life reporter whose letters after his death reveal that he was involved in gang rape and murder, as well as the loyalist mutilation and murder of a Catholic in Northern Ireland in 1981, and the capture and repeated sexual abuse of a young Bosnian woman in Sarajevo in 1994 until she took her own life.

In the book, published in Dublin by Liberties Press, the war correspondent's identity is disguised as "Alan Buckby", with the author listed as "Anonymous".

Author profile: Sam Millar

"While most writers sit in their study and make it up, Sam Millar has lived it." - Cyrus Nowrasteh from Warner Brothers, on the screenplay of On The Brinks 

Born in West Belfast to a Protestant father and Catholic mother, Sam Millar joined the Republican movement during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Author profile: Gerry O'Carroll

Gerry O'Carroll's debut crime novel, The Gathering Of Souls (2010), follows detectives Moss Quinn and Joe Doyle in a race against time to find Quinn's abducted wife.

O'Carroll himself is a retired real-life detective inspector who was central to the investigation of over 80 murders.

He personally arrested serial killers John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans, and was involved in the pursuit of John Gilligan, responsible for the murder of Veronica Guerin.

He was also one of the first detectives to hear Joanne Hayes's controversial murder confession in the Kerry Babies case.

O'Carroll was played by Jon Voight in John Boorman's movie The General (1998).

After his retirement from the police force O'Carroll  became a columnist for the INM group of newspapers. His autobiography The Sheriff: A Detective's Story (2007)  traces his life from a Kerry upbringing as one of 15 children to his career as one of Ireland's most well-known police officers.

Author profile: Niamh O’Connor

Wicklow-based writer Niamh O’Connor was a crime reporter for the Sunday World newspaper for ten years before becoming a full-time author and freelance journalist in 2014.

Her four crime fiction novels, If I Never See You Again (2010), Taken (2011), Too Close For Comfort (2013) and Blink (2014), feature police detective Jo Birmingham.

O'Connor is also the author of Blood Ties, Cracking Crime, and The Black Widow, the best-seller about the life and crimes of Catherine Nevin.

I'm Sorry Sir, her book on Graham Dwyer, who was found guilty in March 2015 of the murder of Elaine O'Hara, was published on Kindle on 4 April 2015 - just days after the trial concluded.

“Niamh’s professional experience as a crime reporter shows on every page.” – Lynda La Plante

Official author website: niamhoconnorwriter.com

Author on Twitter: @Crackingcrime

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Author profile: Abigail Rieley

Abigail Rieley describes herself as "a writer and recovering journalist based in Dublin, Ireland".

Her first true crime book, The Devil in the Red Dress (2008) was about the trial of Sharon Collins and Essam Eid. It was followed by Death on The Hill (2010), about the killing of Celine Cawley by her husband Eamonn Lillis.

Both books were based on trials she had covered as a courts reporter.

She grew up in London and  has been living in Ireland for almost three decades.

Official author website: Abigailrieley.com

Author on Twitter: @abigailrieley

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