Join us

Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Newsletter

Gene Kerrigan

Little Criminals

Cover: Little Criminals - Gene Kerrigan

Gene Kerrigan

Little Criminals

2018, pp. 352, Paperback
ISBN: 9781609454821
Region: Ireland
Book collection: World Noir
$ 17.00

The book

“A great story . . . relentless and brilliant.”—Roddy Doyle

Frankie Crowe is not one of the great criminal masterminds. He’s a small-time thug who thinks that kidnapping one of Dublin’s newly rich businessmen just may be the low-risk fast track to the status and money he’s certain he deserves. When the local crime boss won’t let him make the snatch, he shoots the boss and commences with his plan—such as it is. When Frankie and his crew kidnap the wrong person, no one, from Inspector John Grace to that pillar of Dublin gangland Jo-Jo Mackendrick, can predict the next twist in a scheme that has gone from wrong to bad to worse.

Kerrigan’s novel is alive to the codes and expectations of the different segments of modern Irish society. His narrative is taut and harrowing, his dialogue spot-on. Little Criminals is that exciting combination of entertainment and art available only in superior crime fiction.

“A novel of great emotional impact and beautifully etched characters.”—The Guardian

Little Criminals is a terrific novel, tense and exciting.”—The Independent on Sunday

“Gene Kerrigan’s writing is magnificent. It is graceful, tough, hardboiled and tender, as razor-sharp and gritty as it is lyrical and truthful.”—Joseph O’Connor, author of Star of the Sea

The author

Gene Kerrigan
Gene Kerrigan is the author of The Midnight Choir and the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning novel, The Rage. He lives in Dublin.

Press

From the same country

  • Cover: The Passenger: Ireland - AA.VV.

    AA.VV.

    The Passenger: Ireland

    2022, pp. 192, $ 22.00
    The Passenger sets off to discover a land full of charm and conflict, a country that in just a few decades has gone from being a poor, semi-theocratic...
  • Cover: Shadowplay - Joseph O’Connor

    Joseph O’Connor

    Shadowplay

    2021, pp. 400, $ 16.95
    Shadowplay by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O’Connor, is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by...
  • Cover: Shadowplay - Joseph O’Connor

    Joseph O’Connor

    Shadowplay

    2020, pp. 400, $ 26.00
    Shadowplay by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O’Connor, is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by...
  • Cover: The Companion - Lorcan Roche

    Lorcan Roche

    The Companion

    2010, pp. 352, $ 15.00
    “[The Companion is] brilliantly achieved... Roche handles his materials well, never losing control over his narrative, keeping his reader’s...

More suggestions

  • Cover: The City of the Living - Nicola Lagioia

    Nicola Lagioia

    The City of the Living

    2023, pp. 432, $ 28.00
    From the winner of the Strega Prize, a spellbinding investigation of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history and a journey into...
  • Cover: Pet - Catherine Chidgey

    Catherine Chidgey

    Pet

    2023, pp. 336, $ 18.00
    A new novel from the  Women’s Prize for Fiction longlisted and  Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author of   Remote Sympathy...
  • Cover: Winter Swallows - Maurizio de Giovanni

    Maurizio de Giovanni

    Winter Swallows

    2023, pp. 320, $ 18.00
    The tenth Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery is “endlessly surprising… a delicate balancing act between love and pain, horror and beauty.”...
  • Cover: The Dark Remains - William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin

    William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin

    The Dark Remains

    2022, pp. 256, $ 16.95
    Winner of the 2022 British Book Award for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year In this scorching prequel, New York Times best-selling author...
  • Cover: Bread - Maurizio de Giovanni

    Maurizio de Giovanni

    Bread

    2022, pp. 352, $ 18.00
    In the fifth installment in Maurizio de Giovanni’s bestselling series, the Bastards of Pizzofalcone face their hardest challenge yet: will they...
  • Cover: May God Forgive - Alan Parks

    Alan Parks

    May God Forgive

    2022, pp. 372, $ 17.00
    Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park’s internationally bestselling thriller series.

Join Our Newsletter and receive a FREE eBook!

Stay updated on Europa’s forthcoming releases, author tours and major news.

Are you a bookseller? Click here!

Are you a librarian? Click here!

X