The Cold Case Files will leave you shocked that so many of Ireland's evil killers have not been caught. But by outlining the on-going work of Ireland's cold-case detectives, this book will also give you hope that these killers will never be allowed to rest easy, and that one day justice will come knocking on their door.Unsolved: the 1981 fatal shooting of Lorcan O'Byrne, who was targeted by robbers on the night he was celebrating his engagement.Unsolved: the murder of Grace Livingstone, who was found shot dead in her Malahide home in 1992.Unsolved: the abduction and suspected murder of Brooke Pickard, who was last seen in Co. Kerry in 1991.Cummins also charts the re-investigation into the first case to be solved by the Cold Case Unit: the killing and secret burial of Brian McGrath in Westmeath in 1987.

Barry Cummins is a news journalist with RTÉ and the author of four previous bestsellers, Missing, Lifers,Unsolved and Without Trace.