Four new crime novels with killer stings in their tales

Marie O'Connor's mid-century rural Ireland is pitch perfect

Anne Cunningham

There are four very different crime novels here, so if crime fiction is your thing, read on.

Niall Williams’ village of Faha is echoed in Marie O’Connor’s Whispers on Main Street (Poolbeg, €16.99), set in the fictional Mayo village of Ballintur. And while her prose may not be as polished as Williams’, O’Connor’s mid-century rural Ireland is pitch perfect.