John Brady, Author Steerforth Press $14.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58642-037-6
John Brady deftly weaves a tale of espionage, political intrigue and detective work set against the background of Ireland's pre-Peace Accord troubles in Unholy Ground, a reissue of the second Matt Minogue mystery, in which the Dublin inspector ...
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John Brady, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-312-01829-0
Set in Brady's native Ireland, his debut towers above the mystery category as an eloquent, compelling novel about The Troubles. Sgt. Minogue of the Dublin Garda is assigned the case when Jarlath Walsh, a student at Trinity College, is murdered....
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John Brady, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-312-07109-7
This complex follow-up to A Stone of the Heart again features Sgt. Matt Minogue of Dublin's Garda Murder Squad, here called upon to investigate the strangulation of 73-year-old Arthur Combs, an unprepossessing man who kept to himself. But Combs was...
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John Brady, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-312-08229-1
This brilliant Irish police procedural follows Garda Sgt. Matt Minogue (last seen in Unholy Ground ) on a murder case as it updates the troubles in the isle of saints and scholars. In Joyce's Dublin, now dingy and polluted, women remain subservient...
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John Brady, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-312-13083-1
The brogues and the blarney are back in fine form, but this tale doesn't have nearly the restless energy of All Souls, the previous Inspector Matt Minogue mystery. Brady brings the contradictions of modern-day Dublin vividly to life. On the bank of...
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John Brady, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-09735-6
Like stones enveloped in a thick Irish mist, Brady's images and characters take shape gradually. Gently placed between the harsh urban realities of Dublin and the harsh rural realities of an Irish farm community is Matt Minogue, the jaded homicide...
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John Brady, Author, J. Bell, Editor Da Capo Press $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-201-62733-6
An equally apt title for this would be Anatomy of a Politico, for in reading this life of the man who made negative campaigning a household word, introduced the concept of the permanent campaign and is credited with helping Bush beat Dukakis in 1988
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John Brady, Author, J. Brady, Author Penguin Books $3.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-013847-4
``Set in Brady's native Ireland, his debut towers above the mystery category as an eloquent, compelling novel about the Troubles,'' remarked PW . Trinity College's hallowed grounds are infiltrated by conspirators abetting IRA terrorists. (Aug.)
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John Brady, Author . Steerforth $14.95 (375p) ISBN 978-1-58642-018-5
Tight plotting and subtle characterization distinguish this sixth Inspector Minogue police procedural set in Dublin. With the chief inspector on three-week leave, Minogue is in charge when Patrick Shaughnessy, an American tourist, is found dead in...
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John Brady, Author Kalmbach Publishing Company $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87116-205-2
In this helpful and insightful guidebook to interviewing, Brady (The Craft of Interviewing) offers advice to writers, journalists and reporters:""Interviews are to reporting what verbs are to sentences. ... No verb, no sentence. Likewise, no...
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John Brady. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-07091-3
Veteran editor and author Brady (Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater) approaches the love-hate history of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner with reliable thoroughness. He reveals his sources for each chapter, promising that “no scenes or...
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