Declan Burke Writes

I’m very pleased to announce that TROUBLE IS OUR BUSINESS will be published by New Island Books on September 30th, with yours truly wearing ...

Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like t...

A very happy St Patrick’s Day to one and all, and to celebrate the day that’s in it I thought I’d offer up some of the highlights of Irish c...

Congratulations again to all those shortlisted in the Ireland AM Crime Fiction category at the Irish Book Awards . I know that no one sits d...

You’ll have heard by now, no doubt, that Disney has given the green light to a movie based on the first two books Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl...

So here we are, halfway through the year, roughly speaking, and I’m throwing an eye forward towards November and the Irish Book Awards and w...

I do like the set-up to Rob Kitchen’s STIFFED (Snubnose Press), which sounds like the kind of crackerjack black comedy Eoin Colfer is bring...

I’ve had good reason to congratulate Tana French in the past , and no doubt I’ll be doing so many times in the future, but for now let me c...

If there’s a fault with Paul O’Brien’s sequel to the wrestling noir epic BLOOD RED TURNS DOLLAR GREEN – and let’s face it, I’d be a schmuck...

Inspired by the inimitable Rashers Tierney (if you haven’t read STRUMPET CITY yet, I humbly advise you to do so), you find me this morning ...

One of the less enjoyable aspects of publishing a new book – or releasing a previously published book in e-format, as is the case with THE ...

UPDATE: Given the weekend that’s in it, I thought this was worth a re-post. Normal-ish service will resume shortly … Ed . Crime Always Pa...

You will remember, no doubt, all that hoo-hah about the Irish Book Awards last month, which largely involved dressing up in our best frou-fr...

Show me a good loser, as Vince Lombardi once said, and I’ll show you a loser. Which is irrefutably true. It’s also true, if we can continue ...

Editor's note: The public vote for the Irish Book Awards closes on Sunday, November 18th . Here’s a post from a couple of weeks back, in...

The first review of SLAUGHTER’S HOUND arrives, courtesy of Barry Forshaw at Crime Time , and it’s fair to say that I’m quietly pleased. Quot...

I know very little about the world of professional wrestling other than it is as fake as it is slick, a fictional world in which one of the ...

Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like...

Yours truly had a piece published in the Irish Times yesterday about how the latest generation of Irish crime writers - including Claire McG...

I’m reading Barry Forshaw’s DEATH IN A COLD CLIMATE at the moment, and a fine piece of work it is too, being a forensically detailed accoun...