Irish writer Kate O’Riordan's day job is as a writer and executive producer on the hit ITV/PBS show Mr Selfridge.
Her other screenwriting credits include The Return (2003), the Dublin-set drama starring Julie Walters as a former alcoholic returning home after 10 years in prison for killing her violent husband. The cast included Neil Dudgeon, Ger Ryan and Pauline McLynn.
Silence, the third book in Anthony J. Quinn's "Inspector Celcius Daly" series, comes out in hardback this month and has already been picked by Easons as one of the best Irish novels of the year.
Deadline.com has reported that Brendan Gleeson has joined the cast of Live By Night, Ben Affleck's adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel. The book was published in 2012 and won an Edgar Award for novel of the year.
Gleeson will play a prominent Boston police captain whose defiant son Joe Coughlin (Affleck) climbs a ladder of organised crime in the Prohibition era.
Gerald Seymour's debut novel Harry’s Game (1975), the first big bestseller about the modern troubles in Northern Ireland, has reached a 40th anniversary edition.
A crime fiction supergroup of Belfast author Stuart Neville, Arne Dahl and Eva Dolan will tour Scotland later this month to discuss everything from terrorism to the fate of refugees.
The "Urban Noir Showcase" will visit Glasgow, Inverness, Oban, East Lothian and Dumbarton from 23-25 November 2015. Full details at Dead Good Books.
Ireland's godfather of crime fiction Ken Bruen describes Pat Mullan's latest conspiracy thriller, A Deadly Gamble (2015), as a "wonderful novel" that "moves like a blast of adrenaline."
Desmond J Doherty’s Derry-based "Valberg" series has been optioned by Revolution Films. The London-based production company was founded by Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom, and its acclaimed film and TV productions include 24 Hour Party People, 9 Songs and Rush.
Besides being a leading radio drama producer, Maurice Leitch is a prolific fiction writer. He was an early pioneer of Northern noir - dark crime thrillers set in Northern Ireland since the start of the Troubles in the late 1960s.
Inspector Morse spin-off series Lewis ends tonight. ITV has confirmed that stars Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox have decided to retire from the police drama after 10 years playing detective duo Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway.
Sofia Helin talks to Nordic Noir & Beyond about The Bridge III. BBC Four will show the new season of the Scandinavian thriller from Saturday 21 November onwards. Spoiler alert: Kim Bodnia (the Martin Rohde character) has definitely left the series.
London Spy is a new five-part thriller that begins with a chance romance between two people from very different worlds - one from the intelligence services, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess.
Johnny Cash makes a guest appearance in Ken Bruen's contribution to Borderland Noir, a new anthology of stories and essays of love and death across the Rio Grande.
A new four-part documentary by leading Irish film director Jim Sheridan about the Sophie Toscan Du Plantier murder case is currently in post-production.