With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, March is a wonderful time to celebrate Ireland and its rich cultural heritage in the arts, music, and literature. Every March, I make room in my reading list for an author or two from the Land of Saints and Scholars. This year in particular, I have a hankering to catch up on some Irish mysteries. In case you’d like to join me, here’s a list of books I have my eye on. 

Whether you have a trip to the Emerald Isle in your future or are content to merely travel within the covers of your favorite book, this list will hopefully have a cracking good read that gets you in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day.

After Detective Cassie Maddox discovers a recently-murdered young woman– a near-doppelganger to Cassie– has been living under one of Cassie’s previous undercover identities, Cassie assumes this woman’s life to see if she can uncover the woman’s true identity and tempt the killer out of hiding. As Cassie is drawn into the murdered woman’s world, she realizes that her Jane Doe's secrets run deeper than anyone imagined and that someone will stop at nothing to make sure they stay hidden. 
 

In The Woman in the Woods, Private Investigator Charlie Parker is hired to shadow a police investigation into the body of a woman found dead in the Maine woods and the whereabouts of her missing infant. But Charlie is not the only one following this case, and soon Charlie will discover that nothing about this investigation is as it seems…

Determined to make her mark on the murder task force despite the naysayers among her male colleagues, The Burning follows ambitious detective constable Maeve Kerrigan as she sets out to catch a serial killer preying on the women of London and races to stop them before they can strike again.

Raised as an orphan, Dublin-based Mahoney has always assumed that his mother chose to give him up as an infant. When he learns that his mother’s disappearance shortly after his birth may have been due to foul play, he decides to return to the rural Irish village where he was born in search of answers, but some powerful enemies are determined that the truth will never see the light of day.