Ce livre examine l'expansion récente de la tradition littéraire irlandaise pour inclure la fiction policière locale. Il passe en revue la vague de livres qui utilisent des structures de genre pour explorer des questions spécifiquement irlandaises telles que les troubles, l'ascension et la chute du tigre celtique, ainsi que les expériences irlandaises de traite des êtres humains, de surnaturel, d’avortement et de corruption civique.

This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structures to explore specifically Irish issues such as the Troubles and the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger, as well as Irish experiences of human trafficking, the supernatural, abortion, and civic corruption. These novels are as likely to address the national regulation of sexuality through institutions like the Magdalen Laundries as they are to follow serial killers through the American South or to trace international corporate conspiracies.