Gerard Brennan: April 2010 Archives

Northern Irish Crime Fiction - The Next Generation

You've heard of Adrian McKinty, Brian McGilloway and Stuart Neville, right? If not, you're missing out. You should do yourself a favour and look for their work immediately. The talented trio are the newest blood in the Northern Irish crime fiction scene and they're doing the likes of Colin Bateman, Paul Charles and Sam Millar proud.

This month you can pick up the paperback release of Adrian McKinty's FIFTY GRAND and get your mitts on a copy of Brian McGilloway's latest Inspector Devlin novel, THE RISING. And as if he needed something to keep up with his contemporaries, Stuart Neville only went and won the 2010 LA Times Book Prize this month. But major award-winning skills aside, you shouldn't forget that the follow up to his award winning debut (THE GHOST OF BELFAST in the US -- AKA THE TWELVE in the UK), COLLUSION, will be released in the summer.

The last two months have gone in far too fast for me to keep track of.  Why? Well, apart from starting a new day job I've also been concentrating on a new anthology of short fiction that I co-edited with fellow writer Mike Stone. Requiems for the Departed is an anthology of crime fiction stories that are based on Irish mythology. It features top shelf work from Ken Bruen, Maxim Jakubowski, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Sam Millar, John Grant, Garry Kilworth, and many more. And one of my favourite American crime writers had this to say about it:

"Requiems For The Departed is as Irish as a broken heart, yet universal in appeal. Stuart Neville's "Queen of the Hill" alone is worth the price of admission, but it's only the cream at the top of the pint. With stories from the likes of Bruen, McKinty, Moore, and Grant, you'll want to squeeze every last drop out of this glass." -- Reed Farrel Coleman three-time Shamus Award winner and author of Innocent Monster

The collection is set for release on 1st June 2010. For a full table of contents and a peep at the snazzy cover visit CSNI. Requiems for the Departed will be available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and some of my favourite bricks and mortar bookstores.