Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Murder Rule | 2022 | Dervla McTiernan | Buy |
| 2 | The Fireground | 2023 | Dervla McTiernan | Buy |
| 3 | What Happened to Nina? | 2024 | Dervla McTiernan | Buy |
Dervla McTiernan’s standalone novels step outside the Cormac Reilly series to tell different kinds of crime stories. The Murder Rule (2022) is a legal thriller about a law student who joins an innocence project with motives of her own. The Fireground (2023) centers on a fire and the investigation that follows.
What Happened to Nina? (2024) follows the fallout after a college student disappears, told from the perspectives of two families with very different interests in what happened. Each standalone gives McTiernan room to try a new structure and setting while staying in the crime genre.