Kevin McManus
Kevin McManus is an award-winning writer from Western Ireland. He is an active member of the CWA (The international Crime Writers Association) and has published six novels and two novellas since 2016.
In 2016 the author was awarded the Leonard Trophy for his writing and in 2017 “Under the Red Winter Sky” was voted the best crime Novel of the year out of 2000 nominated books.
In 2019, “The dark path” was published , the first in a series of books featuring a New York based Detective called John Morrigan.
Alongside writing crime fiction, the author also dabbles in poetry and is publishing his first anthology next month entitled “Spirits in the forest”.
By day, Kevin works as a schoolteacher in his native county Leitrim where he lives with his wife, Mary.
Kevin has signed a three-book deal with Spellbound Books for his Irish crime series featuring Detective Ray Louge. The first book in the series was published in Spring 2021 .
Welcome to SpellBound Kevin.
Detective Ray Logue has become something of a maverick in Jim Mulcahy’s police department, having never quite got over the death of his wife 12 years earlier. Logue is now a hard-drinking loner, a loose cannon and thorn in Mulcahy’s side, apt to take the law into his own hands.
He always gets results, but as the body count begins to rise, Logue slowly senses he has stumbled into a sticky web of lies, cover-ups and fronts stretching from his own department all the way to the top level of political power. From the law-enforcers to the law-makers, from respectable businessmen to Russian mobsters – a sinister hand is exercising an iron grip across the whole social order and woe betide any who dare to try to weaken it in any way.
Set in Ireland at the peak of the Celtic Tiger era, Death Rains Down is a dark story of murder, organised crime and political corruption.
Ray Logue returns
1979:
In Western Ireland, Hazel Devereaux, a student of Trinity College in Dublin, goes missing while working at a summer job. Six months later her body is discovered in a shallow grave. A line from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled “A Paean” is discovered in an envelope at the house Hazel was renting.
Thirty Years Later:
Detective Ray Logue discovers that a series of murders in Boston appear to be connected to the killings in 1979. Each victim also received a line from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe delivered to their homes.
A serial killer is at work and has claimed seven lives so far. The murderer kills two victims every ten years, always on a year ending in nine , always on the same dates in June and December.
With less than two weeks until the killer strikes again , Logue is dispatched to Boston to work alongside Detective Olivia Callaghan and Inspector Sam Harper to discover the identity of the murderer and to stop him before he strikes again.
The race is on to catch a killer before he claims his next victim , A killer who has managed to stay hidden for 30 years…
