Anne Emery

Monty Collins is a sharp-tongued public defender who just wants to represent an upstanding character for a change....

The story of Shay Rynne, a young Dublin cop not trusted by his peers in turbulent 1970s Ireland. Father Burke helps Shay revisit the suspicious death of a childhood friend. When a politician is killed, the case takes Shay and Burke from Dublin to Hell’s Kitchen in New York....

Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers - and occasionally investigating murders himself - but he's never come up against anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg....

Long ago, Declan Burke fled Ireland in the dark of night, started a new life in New York City, and has never looked back - until one morning when he picks up the newspaper and reads an obituary....

When Beau Delaney, the Halifax hotshot whose exploits are the subject of a new Hollywood film, is charged with the murder of his wife, Peggy, it’s lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins who takes the case....

When spray-painted graffiti appears on the wall of Christy Burke's pub indicating that there's a killer on the premises, Burke's grandson, Father Brennan Burke, is asked to investigate the vandalism....

A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins suspects it's a double murder.....

The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th century Ireland. In present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is the body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies....

Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and he’s been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. He’s barely managing, but his troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the coast of Halifax....

In the seventh audiobook of the deftly written Collins-Burke Mystery series, Father Brennan Burke's patience is pushed to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in the churchyard, and hordes of pilgrims, souvenir hawkers, and reporters converge on the scene....

From the bullet-riddled bars of Belfast to an elegant English estate, Ruined Abbey combines a whodunit with a war story, a love story, and a historical novel....

As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire....

Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald - the beloved step dancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton's famed Clan Donnie band - vanishes after a family party....