Frankie Gaffney's D7 thriller

Out this week, Frankie Gaffney's debut novel Dublin Seven (Liberties Press) is a coming-of-age gangster tale set at the end of the Celtic Tiger era.

Frankie Gaffney live in the Gingerman pub

Frankie Gaffney reading from his debut novel Dublin Seven in Dublin earlier this month, filmed by Dave Lordan of Bog TV.

Crime fiction at Wexford Literary Festival

The 2016 Wexford Literary Festival includes a panel on Irish crime fiction writing with Jax Miller, Ava McCarthy and Andrea Carter on Saturday 28 May.

Best Irish crime fiction of 2015

2015 was a bumper year for Irish crime fiction. Among major releases were novels by - to name just ten - Alex Barclay, Louise Phillips, John Connolly, Ava McCarthy, Adrian McKinty, Benjamin Black, Sinéad Crowley, Mark O'Sullivan, Karen Perry and Anthony J Quinn.

There were also some dazzling debuts in the crime fiction department, such as novels by Steve Cavanagh, Jax Miller, Alan Walsh, Michael O'Higgins, Frankie Gaffney, Jo Spain and Kelly Creighton.

And it was a good year too for crime fiction on the small and big screen.

Here are some of our personal choices from the past year's Irish crime fiction novels, movies, TV shows and audio books...