"Fionnuala Walton was a legend in her part of Ireland -- strongminded, independent, she had built up a highly successful horse-breeding empire. Now she is lying dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs, and it's up to Chief Inspector Peter McGarr (helped by his lovely wife, Noreen) to discover just who had the most to gain by her death. But when McGarr uncovers some dark secrets from the past, he finds himself struggling to stay alive -- and wondering where Noreen has suddenly disappeared to."
003712 
Price: 22.00 USD

Note: No publication date is listed beyond 'Published by Viking Penguin Inc. 1984', however, the copyright page also states "First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd. 1986". On the other hand, the blurb on the front end paper speaks of fall 1984 in the future tense.
"When a Dublin art dealer is found lying in a pool of blood and a valuable French Impressionist painting is discovered missing, Inspector Peter McGarr must confront a crowd of the dealer's questionabkle cohorts: a double-dealing business partner, a neurasthenic wife, an embittered son, and a gardener/IRA bomb-thrower. McGarr maintains his gutsy composure, aided by his sassy wife, Noreen, an art expert, and a pensioned-off bomb-squad dog, the 'P.M.' - Prime Minister - of the title."
005635 
Price: 17.50 USD

"When separate but identical murders of retired heads of Britain's Secret Intelligence Services threaten the new British Ambassodor to Italy, Inspector Peter McGarr discovers an intricate conspiracy involving tow competitive North Sea oil operations, an ex-Fascist oil baron, and the beautiful wife of the ambassador. Now McGarr must battle British red tape, Italian political intrigue, and a huge Jamaican with a license to kill in order to break a seemingly unsolvable case."
003711 
Price: 6.50 USD

"When May Quirk, star reporter for a New York City newspaper, returned home to rural Ireland, it was more than a sentimental journey. May was investigating the IRA's use of funds donated by Americans. Her reception was not exactly what she planned. Shortly after her arrival she is found dead, stabbed through the chest with a pitchfork. Chief Inspector Peter McGarr of the Irish police is soon deep into an investigation that leads him to the inner councils of the IRA in New York City, introduces him (over a couple of beers) to New York's Finest, and entangles him in an intriguing web of political-and carnal-passions."
001705 
Price: 47.50 USD

"Chief Inspector Peter McGarr has been called out from Dublin to investigate a troubling double homicide. The nude body of young, pretty, and recently married Eel Policewoman Ellen Gilday Finn has been discovered in the bed of a hot-sheet inn-wrapped around the equally unclothed corpse of her much older boss, Pascal Burke. A crime of passion, perhaps, pointing to Ellen's cuckolded newly wedded husband as the perpetrator. But conflicting clues and false confessions are leading McGarr into dangerous hidden corners where greed, corruption, IRA terror and radical, possibly deadly, environmentalism are but a few of the dark blooms secretly nourished in the rich loam of the Irish countryside."
001614 
Price: 5.50 USD

"A priest approaches Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr to report and to make a bizarre request: Could McGarr have the death officially listed as an accident and then pursue the investigation in secret? The answer, of course, is no. Perhaps McGarr would have been wiser to have accepted Father Duggan's offer of covert aid, since McGarr's official investigation is being oddly opposed at every turn. Yet the deeper McGarr digs, the closer he is drawn to a secret order of religious zealots called Opus Dei, a group devoted to enforcing the Lord's edicts no matter what the cost in money. . . or human life."
002403 
Price: 10.95 USD

"A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a 'Tinker,' one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of Desmond Bacon, 'the Toddler,' brutal king of Ireland's heroin trade. But who was the deceased and why was he killed? The answer lies with a Tinker woman named Biddy Nevins, who may be the only person able to put Bacon away - that is, if Peter McGarr and his crew can get to her before the Toddler does."
006267 
Price: 3.95 USD