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From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A funny short story in 3,300 words. The donkey was mad. We all knew that. You only had to look at the cut of it. It stood to reason, of course, that an animal like that would have an owner who would be every bit as odd. And Bunny Dundee was as odd as you could get. Then Bunny gets a letter…

From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short humorous story told in 4,000 words. Michael Galvin thinks he's found the bargain of a lifetime - a Christmas holiday in San Francisco. But why is Micky Dunn being so nice to him? What is he really up to ...

From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short mystery and imagination story in 4,000 words.
What did the dream actually mean - why did it disturb my brother so much, turning it into an obsession? Was he really serious about coming back after he was dead?
'I'll prove it to you,' he insisted. 'I'll come back and show you!'
Then he drove along the railway tracks into the path of the Cork Express...

Ireland 1967. The Summer of love. Or was it?
A holiday weekend. Amazing weather. American student Dakota Lacey is hiking around Kerry. When she arrives in a beautiful seaside town bustling with backpackers, every campsite is already crammed tighter than a duck’s eyelid. So she pitches her tent on the glorious beach. .
But there’s a sinister, dark side to the festivities. Lone female hikers are being brutally attacked. The Gardaí dismiss them as random episodes, triggered by the booze, the drugs and the oppressive heat.
Dakota is unaware of this. Until something wakes her in the middle for the night. A torchlight flicking in the darkness? Someone coming along the beach? Her instinct tells her to run.…

Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide?
Or, as Guard Eamon Foley believes, murder?
But who would want to murder an elderly priest?
Could it be related to the time Fr Daly was in Paris in 1940? After the Nazi invasion, all sides were involved in atrocities. Was he involved in something that got him a death sentence?
And why now, after eight years?

Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.
At Toby Appleyard’s farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed.
But was it murder? Or natural causes brought on by the unusually prolonged bout of bitter weather? Were the cats accidentally locked in the house? Or were they deliberately used to devour the evidence of foul play? Because it was common knowledge that resentment against the Appleyards still festered amongst the tenants over something that happened twelve years ago.
The last time the Appleyards were seen alive was on New Year’s Day. And it was now March.…

Ireland 1945. Florence Kite finds a letter and her whole world crumbles. She has never heard of Marcus Fanning, but the letter hold a terrible secret: Marcus Fanning was her real father. Confused and distraught, Florence goes looking for him and discovers that, twenty-five years ago, Marcus Fanning vanished off the face of the earth.
When a young lad, Frankie Rowe, discovers something that belonged to Marcus Fanning in the attic of an old farmhouse, they find Frankie’s body in a ditch the next day.

Ireland 1944.. A young man’s body is pulled from the River Lee. He’s wearing a distinctive silver ring that belonged to Paudy Daly, the eldest son of the notorious Mixer Daly. Paudy has been missing for over nine months. Guard Eamon Foley discovers Paudy was last seen on his way to rob the house of pig breeder Jacob Butts. So who is the dead man? And why is he wearing Paudy’s ring?

Ireland, 1941. The war raging across Europe is officially someone else's problem.
Under the Emergency, Ireland has closed its doors to the conflict. But neutrality does not mean safety. And for Guard Eamon Foley, trouble has a way of following a man, no matter how far he runs.
A brutal murder in Dublin. A missing ledger that someone very dangerous wants back. Foley witnesses something he was never meant to see, and suddenly he is not investigating a crime. He is surviving one.
Nine months later, Tralee. A crowded pub. A shot fired in the chaos. Foley’s brother-in-law Joe is dead, and Foley is certain he saw the Dublin killer slip through the door. The local Gardai do not believe him. That decision will cost lives.

Ireland 1967. The Summer of love. Or was it?
A holiday weekend. Amazing weather. American student Dakota Lacey is hiking around Kerry. When she arrives in a beautiful seaside town bustling with backpackers, every campsite is already crammed tighter than a duck’s eyelid. So she pitches her tent on the glorious beach. .
But there’s a sinister, dark side to the festivities. Lone female hikers are being brutally attacked. The Gardaí dismiss them as random episodes, triggered by the booze, the drugs and the oppressive heat.
Dakota is unaware of this. Until something wakes her in the middle for the night. A torchlight flicking in the darkness? Someone coming along the beach? Her instinct tells her to run.…