The body on the beach was that of a young man. he had been shot in the head at close range. Professionally.In the third of the Inspector Minogue series, a body washed up on a beach is the son of a prominent Irish family – but there is a catch: ‘He’s one of our own all right, but a Jew nonetheless.’Paul Fine was the son of a prominent judge whose family had lived in Dublin for generations and who had played a key role in the city’s small, complex Jewish community. The evidenc...

The murder of a tourist a decade ago has left open wounds. When an outsider begins to question the past, it changes everything.The fourth Inspector Minogue mystery opens on a drizzly October in Dublin: Minogue is daydreaming of Greece’s blue skies. His plans for a trip there are suddenly dashed: Hoey, his partner in the Garda Murder Squad, has tried to kill himself. To compound Minogue’s problems, family duty calls. His nephew has been arrested for suspected IRA gun running....

Ireland is reeling from the shocks of the economic crash, but Dublin’s still a small place. Bernadette Cummins is frantic: her only surviving son Gary is missing. Because her husband is a criminal godfather serving a sentence, Bernie can’t trust that the Guards will search for her son.She turns to her childhood friend for help - Sheila Malone, Sergeant Tommy Malone’s Ma. With Bernie Gannon facing cancer, Sheila won’t let her down.In a meet with Bernie’s infamous husband, Ma...

A copper learns he has been living a lie: the past returns with a vengeance.In this eight novel in the series, Inspector Minogue is trying to keep up with a Celtic Tiger Ireland that’s racing to the future. But as the saying goes, the past isn’t dead: it’s not even past.Dublin thenNovember late 1980s sees Garda Declan Kelly working his last off-duty shift outside a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder. Spared a bullet in the back of the head, he is snared inst...

For centuries, the remote valleys of southern Austria have seen their smugglers, their hunters and their wars. Two bodies in the forest show that an old order lives on.It has been a long winter here in the hills of southern Austria. Inspektor Felix Kimmel, officer with the Austrian Gendarmerie, is staring at two bodies on a path in the woods. This is clearly beyond the abilities of his local Gendarmerie detachment.The Kripo from Graz soon takes over. Experts they may be, bu...

This book is a collection of poetry by Kay Sulimay Brady, who put her first poetic verse to paper in 1940 at the age of nineteen. Kay's writing shares her feelings on many subjects that were close to her heart--nature and the seasons, love, memories, patriotism, family, faith, and even a nod to local sports. Her poetry reflects a wide range of emotion--joy, introspection, inspiration, sadness, gratitude, appreciation, and touches of whimsy. Kay reflected these emotions back to the reader a...

John Brady Kiesling, a twenty-year veteran of the foreign service, publicly resigned his position as political counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Athens in February 2003 to protest the Bush administrationÆs impending invasion of Iraq. He believed that the security, economic, and moral costs of this war, including the blackening of AmericaÆs image abroad, would far outweigh any benefit to the American people. In Diplomacy Lessons, Kiesling reminds readers that U.S. power does not rest on ...

For over twenty years, John Brady McDonald's day job has been working with youth. Over half of that time was spent as a Frontline Youth Outreach Worker on the streets of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. During that time, John would write down his thoughts and feelings on scraps of paper and in little black hardcover notebooks, chronicling the struggles and traumas of the youth he worked with and which he himself had also experienced. Never being quite the right fit for his other poetry books, ...

It has been more than fifty years since presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, RFK, was murdered at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel in L.A. only five years after his brother John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged shooter who gunned down RFK, the man with an odd name, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, (Sirhan) a twenty-four-year old Palestinian was apprehended at the scene of the crime with the smoking gun still in his hand leading to the conclusion that this seemingly was an open a...

In Flip-Flops and Fortunes, Brady Johns teaches you how to accumulate wealth in ways that energize rather than drain you.The world has enough cutthroat, hypercompetitive, and exhausted millionaires. You can gain that fortune without all that toil—making money work for you on the way to finding security and happiness, wealth, and joy.Brady Johns was tired of spending countless hours staring at the three walls of his cubicle at his job in the tech wo...

He was only a little bit of a chap, and so, when for the first time in his life he came into close contact with the endless current of human things, it was as hard for him to "stay put" as for some wayward little atom of flotsam and jetsam to keep from tossing about in the surging tides of the sea. His mother had left him there in the big toy-shop, with instructions not to move until she came back, while she went off to do some mysterious errand. She thought, no doubt, that with so many be...