The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction

 Personally, I love the novels of Tana French. From CrimeReads:

Irish crime fiction is such an interesting tapestry, in terms of both influence and content. I think of it as a running dialogue among diverse traditions and perspectives, in which tropes or standards are used, challenged, altered, or subverted. For example, an exploration of identity is crucial to Irish literary tradition, but following the Irish Literary Revival, that has often translated to a presumption that an author’s primary charge is to define Irish identity. Irish crime writers firmly reject that notion, and in their work, identity becomes something more complex: affected by culture and history, certainly, but also deeply individual. (Read more.)