Author James Henry has taken what he learned from writing three prequels to R.D. Wingfield’s popular DI Jack Frost series and created this police novel set in Essex, featuring DI Nick Lowry, a hard-bitten cop with a talent for boxing. 

THE title of Sheila Bugler’s third book alludes to the fact that the crime novel is the adult version of the child’s fairytale Set in London, and featuring the dogged DI Ellen Kelly of Lewisham CID, All Things Nice is a police procedural rooted in the nursery rhyme that warns us boys are composed of slugs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails.

The Garda investigation into the disappearance of missing Dundalk teenager Ciara Breen, took another twist yesterday as members of the defence forces were drafted in to help with the ongoing search of the Balmers bog area of the county Louth town.

One of the golden stretches for restaurants in Dublin is St Andrew’s St; minutes away from Grafton St, Stephen’s Green, and Temple Bar, it packs more really good restaurants into a very short length of cement than probably any other area of the city. 

Gardaí have moved closer to securing deleted messages from the Facebook accounts of a teenager who may have been cyberbullied in the weeks before he died by suicide, the Dublin coroner has heard.

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More than 30 members of a notorious Irish Traveller crime network have been arrested in eight countries following a massive Europe- wide investigation.

A highly experienced garda has been appointed head of operations at the new European cyber crime police unit.

CADS: they’ll break your heart, shatter your confidence and cost you a fortune in gin, comfort food and snivelling late- night phone calls to friends in the wake of the inevitable break up.

RORY McILROY showed no ill-effects from his recent wrist injury as he fired a 65 to tie for second place after the opening day of the European Masters in Switzerland.

THE father of a young man who went missing 10 years ago yesterday spoke of the family’s “absolute horror and trepidation” at facing into another year not knowing where their son is or what happened to him.

MANY authors can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand: this former footballer, soldier, musician and financial analyst is one of the few who knows how to keep them upright.

'The Bill' has been axed by ITV after 27 years.

Manchester City forward Robinho has confirmed he is set to leave Eastlands, with a return to Santos the likely destination.

We are in Miss Jean Brodie territory with this simmering sexual drama set in a 1930s girls’ school where the object of lust is teacher Miss G (Green) who runs the swim team, more swooning than swimming.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the US networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America”, has died at the age of 92.

There are no links between the deaths of 14 young people who have been found hanged around one town in just over a year, the local coroner said today.

THE death of Diana, Princess of Wales, might have been prevented had Mohamed al-Fayed heeded pleas for more security, a key inquest witness suggested yesterday.

Diana, Princess of Wales’s blossoming relationship with her new love Dodi Fayed left the Queen “concerned” as the couple grew closer, the inquest was told today.

A JURY yesterday began the long-awaited task of deciding whether Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered in an establishment conspiracy.

Conservatives in the UK are calling for Channel 4 to cancel a documentary featuring graphic pictures of the car crash that killed Princess Diana.

A retired detective superintendent today revealed he had made a joke about a murder suspect confessing all to him hours before a false confession turned up on his behalf.

A FORMER garda accused of intimidating a man wrongly arrested for murder failed to appear to give evidence at the Morris Tribunal yesterday.

A former garda accused of intimidating a man wrongly arrested for murder failed to appear to give evidence at the Morris Tribunal today.

THIS is getting seriously creepy now. It’s weird enough that Arsenal are repeating our 2004/05 moment for moment. Local rivals in fourth, crossing every finger hoping you fail every round.

MANY have noted it, but it was this column, in this paper, which named it.

SHE died almost eight years ago and Diana, Princess of Wales is still making front-page news.

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S legal representatives yesterday appealed to Sweden to consider staging the former dictator’s trial for crimes against humanity.

THE Bishop of Kerry, Dr Bill Murphy, yesterday said Taoiseach Bertie Ahern may have been hasty in deciding not to have a national day of mourning to mark the death of John Paul II.

DETECTIVE Inspector Brendan McArdle is hoping that the belated conviction of John Crerar for a 23-year-old murder has left other unconvicted killers uneasy.

Police have begun a murder inquiry after a retired RUC officer was found dead in his home in Co. Antrim.