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Ein Priester schnappt über, weil er einen Abendmahlskelch fallen lässt. Ein Bankkassierer unterdrückt seine Liebe zu einer verheirateten Frau...

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only 25, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.

Dublin ächzt unter einer historischen Hitzewelle, und auch sonst ist die Stimmung auf dem Siedepunkt, denn ein brutales Killerkommando hat es auf die Profiteure der irischen Wirtschaftskrise abgesehen. Derweil hat Paul Mulchrone ganz andere Sorgen: Kaum hat er seine eigene Detektei gegründet, steht er schon ohne seine Partner da.

Bunny McGarry is back – and he’d really like a nice holiday. Somewhere with hot weather and cold drinks that come with little umbrellas for reasons he never understood. A certain nun has other ideas though and instead, he finds himself dispatched to London to find Sean Malone, a runaway teenager who doesn’t know his mother hasn’t got long left to live. The only leads Bunny has are a last-known address for the deadbeat dad Sean had gone in search of, and some letters the teenager had sent to his mum, one of which included a picture of him with the current heavyweight champion of the world.

Die magiebegabte Leslie arneitet im Antiquitätenladen "Pot of Gold", wo sie sich mit lästigen Kunden herumschlägt und iherer Leidenschaft für sarkastische Kommentare und magische Artefakte nachgeht. Letztere wird ihr zum Verhängnis, als sie trotz Warnung ein geheimnisvolles Ouijabrett öffnet. Dass es sich in den dämonischen Nathaniel verwandelt, der einem nervigen Teenager erschreckend ähnelt, hat sie dabei nicht geahnt.

Als ihn das erste Mal jemand umbringen wollte, war es ein Zufall. Das zweite Mal war volle Absicht. Jetzt ist Paul Mulchrone auf der Flucht vor Leuten, die er nicht kennt und von denen er nicht weiß, warum sie ihn töten wollen. Seine einzigen Verbündeten sind eine Krankenpflegerin, die definitiv zu viele Krimis gelesen hat und Paul mit gefährlichem Halbwissen berät, und ein abtrünniger Kommissar mit einem ungesunden Hang zu Alkohol und roher Gewalt.

Die Hexe Ciara setzt alles daran, eine erfolgreiche Reporterin zu werden, und endlich zahlt sich ihre Mühe aus: Sie darf ihr Idol, einen berühmten Duellmagier, interviewen. Als er Hilfe sucht, weil eine Banshee seiner Familie den Tod ankündigt, wendet Ciara sich an ihre Freundin Leslie und den Privatdetektiv Victor.

The first authorized, unabridged release of this timeless classic and exclusively available from Recorded Books. Ulysses records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland.

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully portrays frustrations and aborted desires to escape the mundane; transformative epiphanies both great and small; and the restraints, loneliness, violence, and contemplations of lives lived.

Agentin im Auftrag der Magie: Die erste Mission für Elia Evander. Kaum hat Elia Evander ihre Magenten-Prüfung bestanden, ist sie auch schon mitten in ihrer ersten Mission: In Dublin wurde ein magisches Artefakt gestohlen! Nun tauchen immer mehr Fabelwesen in der Stadt auf, die nicht nur sich selbst, sondern auch die Menschen in Gefahr bringen. Ein klarer Fall für Elia, Agentin im Auftrag der Magie! Doch die verirrten Kreaturen undercover zurück in ihre Welt zu schleusen, stellt sie vor ungeahnte Herausforderungen.

Megan is excited to show her visiting American friends the best of Ireland. A dead body in a holy well, however, was not on her list. The victim is Seamus Nolan, nicknamed "the Irish Druid" for his controversial efforts to rewild his country estate. The local police seem all-too-willing to write off his death as an accident. But Megan's instincts say not so fast. Megan knows that sleuthing cost her her last girlfriend. Maybe solving another murder will help her make peace with that.

I'm a member of the wealthiest and most powerful family in Dublin. We rule the city and I can have anything I want. Except something is missing from my life. When I meet Teagan, I realize what it is. Her. From the beginning, I'm all in. But she's running scared from someone who hurt her and has no interest in romance or love. When he comes for her, I offer my protection. But my family's not without its enemies. Danger is coming to our door and not everyone will survive.

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history. Or else they’ll be history.

Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave, and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead, activists have taken over the headquarters of a failed bank, the trial of three unscrupulous property developers teeters on the brink of collapse, and in the midst of all this, along comes a mysterious organisation hell-bent on exacting bloody vengeance in the name of the little guy. Paul Mulchrone doesn’t care about any of this; he has problems of his own.

Wer bringt ein kleines Mädchen um und bahrt es auf dem Opferaltar einer Ausgrabungsstätte auf...

For Detective Bunny McGarry, life is complicated, and it is about to get more so. It’s 1999 and his hard won reputation amongst Dublin’s criminal fraternity, for being a massive pain in the backside, is unfortunately shared by his bosses. His partner has a career-threatening gambling problem and, oh yeah, Bunny's finally been given a crack at the big time. He’s set the task of bringing down the most skilled and ruthless armed robbery gang in Irish history. So the last thing he needs in his life is yet another complication.

Als die junge Polizistin Cassie Maddox in ein verfallenes Cottage außerhalb von Dublin gerufen wird, schaut sie ins Gesicht des Todes wie in einen Spiegel...

It’s the year 2000 in Dublin and, following some traumatic events, Detective Bunny McGarry is taking a well-earned break from the force. Bunny’s former partner died in the line of duty under dubious circumstances, but his murky background has suddenly resurfaced, threatening Bunny’s reputation as well. As if that isn’t enough, a young boy is in danger and a woman from the big fella’s past is trapped in a loveless marriage to a monster. They both need Bunny’s help, but he must get to work fast - it seems someone is trying to frame him for murder.

Paul can't let an incident from his past go. When he finds out a rival detective agency played a key role in it, he drags MCM Investigations into a blood feud that they can't hope to win. Soon they're faced with the prospect of the company going out of business, and Brigit going out of her damn mind. When long-buried bodies are discovered in the Wicklow Mountains, Bunny's past starts closing in on him, too.

Frank Mackey, Undercover-Ermittler, hat seine Familie seit 22 Jahren nicht gesehen. Er wollte der Armut seines Viertels für immer entfliehen...