Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.
Dan Starkey Series
This series follows a journalist navigating the turbulent world of Northern Ireland's conflict. With each case, he delves deeper into the political intrigue and personal dramas shaping his life and his city. Readers can expect gripping investigations where the lines between right and wrong are constantly blurred. It's a compelling look at journalism in a time of crisis.
Recommended Reading Order
Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
- 334 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Dan Starkey, hero of Divorcing Jack, is back in an entirely wonderful adventure in America.
Turbulent Priests
- 407 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
Shooting Sean
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Cannes, killing and kidnap from the author of MYSTERY MAN, a Richard and Judy choice
The Horse With My Name
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Ex-journalist Dan Starkey is stuck in a grimy Belfast bedsit. His life is a disaster, and his only solace is the pub around the corner. He really, really needs something to get his teeth into. Fellow ex-journalist Mark Corkery provides that something. Corkery, an Internet horseracing gossip, wants him to investigate Geordie McClean, the man behind Irish American Racing
Driving Big Davie
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
A witty, fast-paced novel featuring Dan Starkey, the international man of inaction, by bestselling Irish author Bateman.
Celebrity scandal, revenge, and a very big mouse...