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.
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.
The gloves are off - Dan Starkey is back in an all-American adventure
Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
Cannes, killing and kidnap from the author of MYSTERY MAN, a Richard and Judy choice
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
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...
Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters
Peace time Belfast seems like the perfect spot for media billionaire's daughter Alison Wolff to study anonymously, but when she disappears following a massacre at a student party nobody knows if she has been kidnapped for ransom or caught in the crossfire. Hired to find Alison, Dan Starkey discovers that Belfast's underworld has shifted rapidly since he was in his journalistic prime. Religion and politics have taken a back seat to drugs and greed, defended with a ruthlessness undreamt of even in the worst days of The Troubles. This is the street violence of Mexico with an Irish twist. In response to the drug wars a new fire and brimstone church movement springs up, but when the controversial new abortion clinic is firebombed, they get the blame and Dan is hired to prove their guilt.In a Belfast rapidly descending back into a city of violence, Dan suddenly finds himself struggling to cope with two very different investigations..... or could they possibly be connected?