Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three books of Belfast Noir: "The Sleeping Season, by Kelly Creighton," Who Took Eden Mulligan?" by Sharon Dempsey and "The Ghosts ...

Ireland’s ascent to the top of the crime-fiction tree will reach new heights this week, when an anthology featuring the country’s finest thriller-writers is launched in New York on November 7, writes ...

When the second series of The Fall, the BBC2 crime thriller set in Belfast, is broadcast later this year, it will be the pinnacle in a striking cultural phenomenon: the rise of "Ulster noir". A ...

Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles dominated life in Ireland’s second-biggest population centre, ...

A SATURDAY afternoon in Edinburgh and the subject today is shoplifting. Stephen, I ask the actor sitting in front of me, what was the last thing you stole? Stephen Graham, Liverpudlian, star of This ...

Edited by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61775-291-9 Belfast, with its bleak, murderous history, at last gets an entry in Akashic’s acclaimed noir ...

The austere beauty and bleakness of the Northern Irish landscape provides the perfect backdrop for the BBC's latest thriller Bloodlands. In his first foray into television and crime noir, writer Chris ...