There are 12 books in the Katie Maguire series. The newest book is Pay Back The Devil which came out in 2024.

1
White Bones

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One wet, windswept November morning, a field on a desolate farm gives up the dismembered bones of eleven women...

Their skeletons bear the marks of a meticulous butcher. The bodies date back to 1915. All were likely skinned alive.

But then a young woman goes missing, and her remains, the…

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2
Broken Angels

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As they came nearer, the black-clad body came into view, lying on its side in the shallows...

One cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a body floating in the Blackwater River: the mutilated corpse of a retired music teacher. His hands and feet are bound, and his…

3
Red Light

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Somewhere in the city of Cork, a woman's cry echoes through the rainy streets.

On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a burly man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body. She has been trapped here for three days. It doesn't take DS Katie Maguire long to…

4
Taken for Dead

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Katie Maguire is one of Ireland's best detectives.
So why can't she catch these killers?

In a secluded cove just outside the reaches of the city of Cork, a woman wakes up into a nightmare. She is buried in the sand, unable to escape. The gulls wheel silently overhead. Nobody…

5
Blood Sisters

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Katie Maguire never thought Ireland's nuns would need her protection...

In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. It looks like a mercy-killing - until another sister from the same convent is found floating in the Glashaboy river.

The nuns…

6
Buried

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Katie Maguire knows that in this part of Ireland, the past can never stay buried... In Blarney, Cork, an old millworker's cottage guards its secrets. In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this house. Now their mummified bodies have been discovered under the floorboards. As…

7
Living Death

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The girl who teetered out of the doorway was exactly who they were looking for... DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorising Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all time high. Now they have a missing girl to…

9
Dead Men Whistling

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ONLY SILENCE CAN KEEP YOU SAFE.

Sergeant Kieran O'Regan was responsible for hunting down killers. Now he's become one of the dead: his decapitated body has been found in a graveyard, a tin whistle stuffed into his throat.

O'Regan was due to give evidence at a trial for police corruption.…

10
Begging to Die

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AN ABANDONED CHILD A young girl has been found in a deserted cemetery. She speaks a foreign language, and she cries for her mother. But nobody claims her. Nobody knows who she is. A MURDERED BEGGAR On the streets of Cork, homeless men and women are being murdered. It's up…

11
The Last Drop of Blood

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The final thriller in the million-copy-selling Katie Maguire series. In the driver's seat of a Jaguar, on a country road, a good man burns. Justice Garrett Quinn should have been at a sentencing. He was one of the good ones, fighting for order in a lawless world. In a burned-out…

12
Pay Back The Devil

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