Before I Go to Sleep ****

Agatha Christie’s popularity is due to a combination no other mystery writer mastered, Declan Burke discovers.

As a sequel, it wouldn’t match up to The Godfather II.

Given that everyone is sharing their Brian O’Driscoll stories, I thought I’d give the benefit of my long history of encounters with the great man.

CRIME fiction is regarded as a good vehicle for reflecting the times in which it is written.

John Connolly and Declan Burke convinced great writers to write about their favourite mystery novels. Val Nolan is impressed

Crime has definitely paid for John Connolly, who has sold over 10m books. He talks murder with Richard Fitzpatrick

What It Was

USUALLY, the end of year column runs along lines as familiar as the main tracks from Kent to Heuston.

THERE’S no point in beating around the bush: the stand-out flashes of genius in the hurling and football championships have come in the last couple of weekends.

GIVEN that it was Brian O’Driscoll’s 100th cap last Saturday, and all of a sudden everybody has a Brian O’Driscoll story, we thought we’d share ours.

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