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Sam Millar
Crime writer

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2012

Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial killer, but the police are claiming a simple vendetta between local criminals. Karl embarks on a nightmarish journey as he attempts to solve the mystery and soon he's suspecting Mark Wilson, his detested ex brother-in-law....

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2012

Dead of Winter

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2012

The Dead of Winter

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PUBLISHED: Jun.06.2010

Requiems for The Departed

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PUBLISHED: Feb.08.2008

Bloodstorm

Karl Kane is a private investigator with a dark past. As a child, he witnessed the brutal rape and murder of his mother. The same man sexually molested Karl, leaving him for dead with horrific knife wounds covering his body. Years later, Karl has a chance to avenge his mother’s murder by killing the man responsible. The opportunity arises on one unforgettable Good Friday night. For...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.28.2006

The Redemption Factory

American edition of best selling Irish crime novel.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.08.2005

The Redemption Factory

Stunning crime fiction from the bestselling author of On the Brinks In a wood at night a young woman witnesses the murder of a whistleblower by a corrupt businessman, owner of an abattoir. Paul Goodman, a would-be snooker champion working at the abattoir, has never known his father and believes - wrongly - that he deserted him when young. But he is befriended by the one man who...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2003

Dark Souls

Dark Souls is sombre tale of damaged childhoods that lead inexorably to a tainted and violent adolescence.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.09.2003

On The Brinks

Best-selling memoir of life in war-torn Belfast, and the biggest heist in American history (at the time). Rights acquired by Warner Brothers. Longest best-selling memoir in Irish publishing history.

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The Dark Place

Young homeless women and drug addicts are being abducted before being brutally mutilated and murdered, and a city is held in a grip of unspeakable terror. The cops are unable – or unwilling – to apprehend the elusive serial killer, and corrupt politicians turn a seemingly blind and almost approving eye to the catalogue of murders. The perpetrator is cunning, wealthy and...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.06.2006

The Darkness of Bones

A young boy discovers a bone in a snow-covered forest. Initially, Quigley Maguire thinks it could simply be that of an animal. But it belongs to a young girl who has been missing for three years. Quigley’s father, Frank, an ex-detective who now works as a private investigator, has hidden from his son his responsibility for his wife’s death. When he confesses the truth to him,...

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Jul.13.2009 - 2:37 am

In response to: Bloodstorm

Bloodstorm: The First Karl Kane book

Bloodstorm is the first of the Karl Kane books. It was awarded ‘Read of The Year’ by Belfast Telegraph, topping Frank...

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Mar.15.2006

The Darkness of Bones

Published by Irish Times

“The Darkness of Bones recreates the details of a child sex abuse scandal [Kincora] with shivery vividness.”

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Bloodstorm is the start of this powerful first of a new crime series from Irish author Millar. Extremely original, it is a chillingly gripping book. ”

—Publishers Weekly

About Sam

An award-winning crime writer of numerous true and fictional best-selling crime books. Dark Souls, On The Brinks, The Redemption Factory (short listed to the last six for Grand Prix de littérature policière, France’s most prestigious crime award) The...

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