Mel Healy's new novelette: 'Way To Go'

The Kindle version of Ghost Flight, the latest novel in Mel Healy's series featuring Dublin PI Moss Reid, also includes a new novelette, Way To Go.

Author profile: Mel Healy

Dublin writer Mel Healy's "Moss Reid" series revolves around a private eye with generally run-of-the-mill cases, whose priorities in life are to "eat, drink and investigate (in that order)".

The series, set mainly around Stoneybatter  in Dublin, begins with Another Case in Cowtown (2013) as Reid goes undercover in a top restaurant.

His third crime novel Ghost Flight (2014) switches between Ireland and the south of France. Shortly before the economic crash in 2008, three Irish businessmen disappear in a light aircraft off the west coast of Ireland. Six years later, an Irish woman spots one of them in the Languedoc, then she, too, goes missing.

Healy's novels all come with a health warning: do not read while hungry.
He has worked in a butchers' shop in Dublin, and spent a brief spell in a Paris restaurant as a pastry chef. He studied forensic science at the University of Strathclyde "but never had the guts to finish the course".

"Another Case in Cowtown is a great fun detective story set firmly in Stoneybatter. Highly recommended." - Liz Nugent

Official author website: Melhealy.wordpress.com

Author on Twitter: @mossreid

See also: Mossreid.blogspot.com - a blog about places featured in the "Moss Reid" series

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BOTM: 'Ghost Flight' by Mel Healy

Our October "Book of the Month": Ghost Flight.

The author: Mel Healy.

The genre: murder mystery, private eye.

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...