Gerard Donovan Boeken

Een moordenaar teistert de straten van Dublin. Voor elke aanval slaat hij een kruisje en daarna stuurt hij zijn slachtoffers naar God, wat hem de bijnaam 'De Priester' oplevert. Als de dochter van een diplomaat wordt aangevallen en voor dood wordt achtergelaten, gebrandmerkt met een roodgloeiende crucifix, wordt rechercheur Mike Mulcahy op de zaak gezet. Mulcahy is een doorgewinterde politieman, maar deze gruwelijke daad gaat zelfs zijn ergste verbeelding te boven - en De Priester is gevaarlijker en ongrijpbaarder dan elke misdadiger waar hij ooit mee te maken heeft gehad: een engel des doods met een ziel die zwarter is dan de hel. Terwijl de media op hol slaan en de stad wordt overspoeld door paniek, moet Mulcahy De Priester tegenhouden voor hij zijn duivelse missie kan voltooien.

A young man driving across Ireland with his wife asks her how long she would wait before being with another man if he died.

Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and not by accident. Gerard Donovan weaves an extraordinary tale of revenge that is also a tender and heartbreaking paean to lost love. Narrated by the unforgettable voice of Julius himself - at once compassionate, vulnerable and threatening - it reads like a timeless, lost classic.

In an unnamed European village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs while another watches over him. Gradually, they begin to talk. Over the course of the afternoon, as the snow falls and truck-loads of villagers are corralled in the next field, we discover why they are there - not just who they are and how specific, sinister events in their country have led them to be separated by a deepening grave, but why the history of civilization is inseparable from the history of mass violence. Beautifully written, with a poet's eye for detail coupled with a chilling narrative drive, Gerard Donovan's first novel has been compared with Franz Kafka and Bernhard Schlink. SCHOPENHAUER'S TELESCOPE is current in the best sense - not merely about Bosnia or Kosovo, but in attempting to make art out of brutal life.

1922. 'Movie czar' Will H. Hays is on a mission to clean up Hollywood by compiling the Doom List - a list of 'undesirables' whom he plans to bar from screen work. Private investigator Tom Collins is hired to protect a leading lady's reputation at all costs, and is drawn into a case of scandal, forbidden passion, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder.

1922. When a leading Hollywood film director is found shot dead, Irish-American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved. But Normand has gone missing, and Collins' search will lead him to a secret so explosive it must be kept silent at any cost.

Siobhan Fallon, un’agguerrita e intraprendente giornalista, sta scrivendo un pezzo sull’ennesima vittima della crisi economica: Cormac Horgan, giovane immobiliarista che non ha retto al fallimento della sua azienda, si è buttato giù da un ponte e l’ha fatta finita. Sembra una storia piatta, priva di mordente, ma all’improvviso viene fuori un dettaglio inquietante: Horgan aveva da poco ripreso a frequentare un’ex fidanzata e della ragazza, da quando lui è morto, si sono perse le tracce. Siobhan, insospettita, si rivolge al detective Mike Mulcahy per chiedergli aiuto, e i due vengono catapultati in un mondo di bugie, tradimenti e inaspettate alleanze: c’è un legame tra il misterioso suicidio, la morte di un narcotrafficante ritiratosi in Spagna e la scomparsa di un grosso carico di cocaina al largo delle coste irlandesi. Il terreno su cui Siobhan e Mulcahy si stanno inoltrando è irto di pericoli e il conto dei cadaveri è destinato ad aumentare…

Mit diesem Roman schließt Gerard Donovan an seinen Weltbestseller »Winter in Maine« an. So erbarmungslos wie gewaltig: Die Kräfte von Natur und Schicksal sind stärker, als der Mensch glaubt. Nebel steigt auf über dem Fluss bei Ross Point in Maine, und auch um die hohe Brücke vor der Mündung ins Meer wallen Nebelschwaden. Dort steht Luke Roy und wartet. Er will springen - schon öfter hat er an Selbstmord gedacht. Als der Himmel endlich klar wird, hört er vom Fluss her Schreie. Ein Ausflugsboot ist gekentert, und ein Junge wird von der Strömung Richtung Klippen und Meer getrieben. Luke zögert nicht: Der Außenseiter wird zum Helden wider Willen, und sein Leben ändert sich auf eine Weise, die er sich nie hätte träumen lassen …