Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century. Liberties Press, Dublin, 2011. Fine copy in pictorial.

Only 200 copies published in hardback, Signed to the title page by the editor Declan Burke and twenty-three of the contributors.

Editor Declan Burke puts a shape on the story of Irish crime writing in a thorough compendium of essays, interviews and short fiction. It offers a vivid insight into the dark heart of modern Ireland. ‘Arguably the nearest thing we have to a realist literature adequate to capturing the nature of contemporary society’ Fintan O’Toole.