The enthralling stories behind twelve famous Irish abductions. Kidnapping is a particularily heartless crime. Not only is the victim held in conditions of physical and psychological stress, his or her family suffer the trauma of knowing that their loved one has been taken by force and that they are powerless to help.
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Preface
1. The Curran Family and the Littlejohn Brothers
2. Thomas Niedermayer - A Double Tragedy
3. Dr Herrema and the Siege at Monasterevin
4. Father Hugh Murphy and Killers in the Ranks
5. Ben Dunne's Kidnap and His Subsequent Fall From Grace
6. Shergar and the Fossett's Ponies
7. The Kirkpatricks, Richard Hill, and a Supergrass Trial
8. Don Tidey and the Murders at Derrada Wood
9. Jennifer Guinness - Four Houses and a Hostage
10. Brian Keenan's Four-and-a-Half-Years of Captivity
11. The John O'Grady Kidnap and Mutilation
12. Deirdre Crowley and the Murder-Suicide by her Father
Professional Reviews
The Mayo News
"Davidson gives a cool and dispassionate account of the crimes overlaid with sensitivity notably in the account of Deirdre Crowley's brutal shotgun killing by her most-wanted father."
John O'Mahony, The Kingdom
"Paramiltary activity and criminal antics in Kerry came under intense surveillance during the course of high-profile garda investigations into many of the most notorious kidnapping cases in the State, it is revealed in a new book destined for the bestseller lists."
Mary Lynch, Business Ireland Magazine
"Aside from the facts of the kidnaps themselves, the book's major strength is in the way Davidson connects these episodes and some of the people involved in them to other political events in Ireland."
A jaded cold case investigator finds himself trying to solve a thirty year old mystery when the skeletal remains of two missing teenagers are found in a national park.
A jaded cold case investigator finds himself trying to solve a thirty year old mystery when the skeletal remains of two missing teenagers are found in a national park.
