Colin Bateman Livres

Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters

MYSTERY MAN, the first novel in this brilliant new series, was a Richard & Judy choice in 2009 and has sold over 100,000 copies

'You don't say no to Dr. Yes', the charismatic plastic surgeon on the fast track to fame and fortune. But when the wife of obscure and paranoid crime writer Augustine Morrow disappears shortly after entering his exclusive clinic, the Small Bookseller with No Name is persuaded to investigate. As fatherhood approaches, our intrepid hero is interested only in a quick buck and the chance to exploit a neglected writer, but he soon finds himself up to his neck in murder, make-up and madness -- and face to face with the most gruesome serial killer since the last one.

Celebrity scandal, revenge, and a very big mouse...

Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters

"Ten-year-old Mohammed Maguire is one of the only survivors when the US Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan desert, killing both his parents. He is brought back to Ireland, the land of his mother's birth, where he is treated as a public relations commodity by all sides of an argument he doesn't understand, but which he can see with the clear eyes of a child."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dan Starkey, hero of Divorcing Jack, is back in an entirely wonderful adventure in America.

Cannes, killing and kidnap from the author of MYSTERY MAN, a Richard and Judy choice

A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman!

When notorious gangster 'Fat Sam' Mahood is murdered, the chief suspect is arrested nearby. But he seems to have suffered a breakdown. Incarcerated in a mental institution, he's known only as the Man in the White Suit. The suspect remains an enigma until Nurse Brenda calls on Mystery Man, former patient and owner of No Alibis, Belfast's finest mystery bookshop, to bring his powers of investigation to bear... However, before our hero can even begin, the Man in the White Suit is arrested for the murder of a fellow patient. But is he a double murderer or a helpless scapegoat? Intrigue, conspiracy, and ancient Latin curses all combine to give the Small Bookseller with No Name his most difficult case to date.

Peace time Belfast seems like the perfect spot for media billionaire's daughter Alison Wolff to study anonymously, but when she disappears following a massacre at a student party nobody knows if she has been kidnapped for ransom or caught in the crossfire. Hired to find Alison, Dan Starkey discovers that Belfast's underworld has shifted rapidly since he was in his journalistic prime. Religion and politics have taken a back seat to drugs and greed, defended with a ruthlessness undreamt of even in the worst days of The Troubles. This is the street violence of Mexico with an Irish twist. In response to the drug wars a new fire and brimstone church movement springs up, but when the controversial new abortion clinic is firebombed, they get the blame and Dan is hired to prove their guilt.In a Belfast rapidly descending back into a city of violence, Dan suddenly finds himself struggling to cope with two very different investigations..... or could they possibly be connected?

MURPHY'S LAW is the first novel in a new series linked to a BBC1 TV series featuring James Nesbitt as Murphy, by the acclaimed author of DIVORCING JACK.

A sequel to Divorcing Jack, set in a mythical Northern Ireland town. Drunken journalist Miller is sent as a punishment from his Belfast newspaper to small-town Crossmaheart as a replacement for someone who has disappeared. Once there, he falls is love with the missing man's girlfriend.

A witty, fast-paced novel featuring Dan Starkey, the international man of inaction, by bestselling Irish author Bateman.

Ex-journalist Dan Starkey is stuck in a grimy Belfast bedsit. His life is a disaster, and his only solace is the pub around the corner. He really, really needs something to get his teeth into. Fellow ex-journalist Mark Corkery provides that something. Corkery, an Internet horseracing gossip, wants him to investigate Geordie McClean, the man behind Irish American Racing

Michael Ryan was the author of a runaway bestseller, Space Coast, but its publication coincided with his wife's murder in a bank raid. Now he's back to face the ghosts of his past. Michael met Claire when she was dragging Paul de Luca, detective novel writer and owner of a porn shop, out of the sea after he'd lost his feet in a shark attack. Claire was living with local hard man Tommy, a Gulf War vet, at the time and Tommy was not impressed with Michael's interest in his girl. When Tommy leaves town to be a roadie for a band playing a six-week stint on a cruise ship, Michael falls in love with Claire, they marry and he writes his novel. But then Claire is killed in the bank raid. Ten years later, Michael returns to the scene of the crime to exorcise the ghosts of the past and try to write his second novel. But he discovers the grim truth behind his wife's murder and encounters the strangest of small-town behaviour ...

MYSTERY MAN has recently been optioned by SMG, the makers of Taggart and Rebus , to be developed for television; they are currently seeking to attach a high profile cast

It's bad enough having a name like Nathan Jones - unless you're a Supremes fan, which Nathan isn't - but when his girlfriend leaves him (for a drag artist) and he gets mugged, then handcuffed to a bed and cut up in a misunderstanding with an S&M hooker, can things get any worse?

Writer Ivan Connor is desperate. His publisher has turned down his wonderful new novel, his agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his latest reading is his mum. He's deeply jealous of the marketable Francesca Brady, a hugely successful author of fat romantic books for fat romantic people, whose expansive hair and bright red lipstick mock him from posters everywhere he goes. He's also living at home since his marriage broke up, and he's just collected the wrong child from school. But one night Connor stumbles on a route back to the top, via a beautiful model, two deranged psychopaths, a multi-million pound publishing fraud, true love and utter heartbreak.

Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.

Colin Bateman grew up in the pleasant seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. Ten miles away, the IRA, the UDA and the UVF were blowing Belfast apart, but he was more concerned with making his first million through the GBA - the Gerbil Breeding Association (sadly short-lived when his gerbils turned out to be cannibals). Inspired by All the President' s Men and The Odessa File to become a crusading journalist, Bateman joined the local paper when he was a seventeen-year-old punk rocker, where instead of bringing down Presidents and finding Nazis, he found himself being hunted down by the notorious Kilcooley Strollers, a dance troupe with an axe to grind.So close to the Troubles, yet so far away - Thunder and Lightning is the story of one boy' s journey through the rather soft side of life in a town which lacked tough streets but boasted many cul-de-sacs. A town where an occasional terrorist bomb was seen as an opportunity to profiteer and where his father became a paramilitary by accident.

Jimmy Armstrong ist Pechvogel aus Familientradition. Schon sein Urgroßvater ist seinerzeit mit der Titanic untergegangen. Inzwischen schreiben wir das Jahr 2020, es gibt eine neue Titanic, und Jimmy hat einen Plan: Er wird die Pechsträhne beenden. Wenig später sitzt er als blinder Passagier wider Willen auf dem Luxusliner fest. Draußen wütet ein Killervirus, doch an Bord der neuen Titanic ist es nicht viel besser. Dort lauern die wahren Katastrophen der Menschheit. Rette sich, wer kann! Jungs und Männer zuerst.

Dan Starkey, belfastský novinář, kterého známe už z černočerné gangstersko-politické grotesky Irská šaráda, se tentokrát vydává na malý ostrov Wrathlin – meteorologicky vlhký, avšak pokud jde o alkohol prý suchý – s tajným úkolem. Má zjistit, co je pravdy na tom, že se na ostrově narodil nový Mesiáš. Zjistí, že místní Mesiáše sice uctívají, ale že je to holka a že její matka, matka Boží, kouří cigarety B&H. Ověří i fakt, že s prohibicí to tu myslí smrtelně vážně, ale jeho starý dobrý černý humor ho přejde, když se okolo něho začne vraždit. Začnou se dít věci a nepřestanou do poslední stránky.

Belfastský novinář na volné noze Dan Starkey se v pátek večer opije, v opilosti se nechá svést krásnou neznámou a jeho žena Patricie ho vyhodí z domu. Nová dívka pozve Starkeyho k sobě, ale je krátce nato zavražděna a nešťastný novinář se stane hlavním podezřelým. Mezitím Patricii unesejeden z mnoha teroristických gangů z Belfastu a Dan ji musí zachránit. Ukáže se, že zavražděná dívka měla nevědomky u sebe kompromitující materiál, který může zničit pěkných pár politiků a zvrátit jak pečlivě připravované volby, tak i důležitou vládní mírovou iniciativu. Dan Starkey neví, proč mu jdou gangy ostrých hochů po krku, neví, proč se o něj najednou zajímají politici, on si chce jenom zachránit krk a najít Patricii. Pokud možno ještě živou.

Someone has started killing killers and Detective Martin Murphy has gone undercover in 'Confront', a support group for relatives of murder victims. He suspects them of carrying out revenge killings but it seems that they have been doing their own detective work and before Murphy realises, the group is forcing him to face the harrowing events of his own past. Now Murphy must come to terms with the past whilst also bringing the killers' killer to justice. The only problem is he's starting to think that whoever's doing the killing may have a point. After all, revenge is sweet... isn't it?

Dan Starkey se zas jednou ocitl v pěkné šlamastyce, kterou si podle svého názoru ani nezavinil, ani nezasloužil. On přece přistoupil jenom na dohodu, že napíše knihu o slavném herci Seanu O'Tooleovi, který zrovna natáčí v Dublinu film o notoricky známém severoirském mafiánovi. Jenže tato zdánlivě nevinná smlouva se záhy mění v kontrakt o Seanův život a Dan má být tím, kdo stiskne spoušť. Nutí ho k tomu okolnost, že onen severoirský mafián drží na neznámém místě o hladu jeho ženu a synka a Dan je může najít a zachránit, jen pokud Seana co nejdřív zabije. Děj se posouvá z Irska do amsterdamského drogového ráje, potom až na festival v Cannes. V Danových stopách zůstává spoušť, doutnající filmové ateliéry, střílečka ve vykřičené čtvrti, ale to vše jaksi omylem, protože Dan je přece vyhlášený největší belfastský posera.

Ein Ire in New York trinkt, verliert seine Freundin und wird Nachtwächter. Colin Bateman, Irlands neuer Kultautor, verwandelt diese Geschichte in einen spannenden Thriller. Seine Romane stehen zur Verfilmung an und er gilt als einer der verrücktesten und spannendsten Autoren.