The Sunday Times snubs 75 years of Irish crime fiction

The publication of a listicle entitled “The 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945” in the Sunday Times over the weekend left the Irish crime fiction community justifiably aghast, and author Brian McGilloway succinctly summed up why:

Can’t decide what’s worse; the fact that not a single Irish or N Irish writer features in @thesundaytimes 100 Crime Novels to Love, or the fact that they believe the best crime novel written about the Troubles here was by an English journalist, written 23 years before it ended? pic.twitter.com/TJoZpLJItC

— Brian McGilloway (@BrianMcGilloway) May 12, 2019

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