A drug dealer found dead in an abandoned warehouse, a failed businessman and banker die in creepily similar ways in a private hospital. These deaths can’t be related. Or can they? Detective Kate Bowen’s colleague believes a string of unconnected deaths are related and a serial killer must be loose in Dublin’s classiest district. Kate’s not convinced… until she sees her old college professor’s bizarre witness statement. Is this a faked script for theatrical academic research, or a hiding-in-plain-sight confession of a sociopath executing several victims with heart-wrenching brutality? A police procedural with a gritty female sleuth for fans of Graham Masterton’s Katie Maguire series or Vince Flynn’s fast-paced political thrillers. .

Detective Kate Bowen is accustomed to dealing with difficult men as she leads Dublin's Surveillance and Intelligence Unit and in disastrous love life. But when her team discover ex-IRA stirrings and chatter of an alliance between a rogue group and a Paris-based militant Islamic cell, Kate unearths a tangled conspiracy hiding a vengeful Irish terrorist's plot. Her investigation leads into a warren of France's disenfranchised Muslim youth, a bombing at the BBC Proms, and sniping between intelligence agencies that threaten to derail the case. And Kate's boyfriend, the seductive Charlie, isn't what he seems either. Not by a long shot. A police procedural with a gritty female sleuth pitted against an international alliance of the world's worst terrorists, a pompous MI5 Section Chief seeking glory with innocents being tortured and slaughtered along the blood strewn way.

In the game of cat and mouse … When Detective Kate Bowen spies Dublin drug dealer, Don Bailey, huddled with Middle Eastern contacts her old instincts ignite. The chase is on. Problem is, her constant rule bending has finally stung, and seen her banished from leading Dublin’s elite surveillance unit to a backwater UN post in Cyprus. Undaunted, she rouses CIA contacts and embeds herself in an off the books mission into Beirut to identify her prey. Out of the blue, a curve ball case throws her surveillance career a lifeline and Kate returns to Dublin. She shadows an ISIS cyberspace mastermind and struggles to keep pace with the royally big score Bailey is plotting. The chase continues. As a hijacked French charter flight hurtles towards the Irish coast… can Kate thwart the conspiracy before innocents die or is her intuition way off target this time? … the chase is everything If you enjoy compulsive page turners with constant tension and engaging twists and turns, then you'll love this uniquely Irish thriller.

The latest, explosive installment in the Detective Kate Bowen mystery thriller series 'A great storm is coming, ' the British ISIS messenger warns. 'As the Crusader seeks to destroy the lands of the Prophet, so we will lay waste a great city. Your greatest power will be our greatest weapon.' Detective Kate Bowen works scant clues to foil a looming ISIS attack. Nobody knows the when, where, or how the terrorist cell will strike. All Kate has is an insatiable thirst for justice and a hard-boiled surveillance team. Her past is her enemy As her mother is struck down and clings to life by a thread, a faceless specter from Kate's past emerges threatening biblical revenge. Her transgression is unspoken, the danger unknown. Her two worlds explode With explosions rocking her city of Dublin and her personal life in tatters, can Kate strike back at her nemesis and save a metropolis from ruin before a ticking clock hits zero? 'A thrilling and fast paced novel. With 'Strike Back' T.R. Croke has created a visceral page turner, propelling us into a tense and exciting world, and a story that moves at breakneck speed. Fasten your safety belts!' \- Niamh Boyce, the No. 1 bestselling author of Her Kind and The Herbalist. 'Strike Back is a fast-paced, action packed thriller with a strong and sympathetic female lead in Detective Kate Bowen.' - Andrea Carter, author of the best-selling Inishowen Mysteries series. If you enjoy compulsive page-turners with constant tension and engaging twists and turns, you'll love the Kate Bowen thriller series.