Sharon Dempsey is a Belfast based crime writer. The first in her new crime series, ‘Who Took Eden Mulligan?’ was published in 2021, by Avon Harper Collins. She is undertaking a creative-critical PhD at Queen’s University, exploring class and gender in crime Northern Irish crime fiction.
Northern Irish writers are making sense of a complicated history through crime fiction. Here are some of the best novels to come out of the post-conflict era.