Leo McGuigan

The Invention

In 1960s Belfast, a boy comes of age while devising a plan to steal cigarettes.

The Boy by the Pool

A woman's sun-soaked vacation takes a sinister turn when she meets a picture-perfect couple whose son bears a striking resemblance to a young boy who disappeared two years earlier.

Let's Murder Like It's 1999!

Laney is dreading her high school reunion because of a sad background. However, when classmates begin to die, she must find the perpetrator before she or her daughter become the next victim.

Braxton Butcher

Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now. Ten years later, a group of fresh-faced teens find themselves targeted by a masked man in a hooded cloak. It's up to Detective Ryan Fenton and his fish-out-of-water partner to protect the town from Miller's clutches; there's just one issue - Ryan himself is a survivor of the original massacre. Is Miller opening up a new chapter, or has he returned to attend to some unfinished business?

Limbo

Brendan’s mother Eilis reveals a dark secret on her deathbed, one to which Brendan must find the answer – what happened to her lost child?

Killing for Extra Credit

When a mysterious social media account begins to post blind items about the scandals of a small town high school, a troubled teen and her best friend set out to unmask the culprit – with deadly consequences…

Ruthless

In 1970’s Northern Ireland, a young boy, bereft of his mother, defies his father to get the Glam Rock album he so desperately wants. It’s Belfast - early 70’s… BOOM! Something’s in the air and it’s not a bomb, it’s a revolution. Glam Rock is drowning out the noise of armoured cars. As British soldiers patrol the streets, kids are glued to Top Of The Pops, entranced by Marc Bolan, the androgynous, satin-clad, glitter-god. In a high-rise flat lives a recently bereaved father and his ten-year-old son PJ, who is desperate to get his hands on the new T. Rex album Electric Warrior. The problem is he’s skint and his Da is on the dole. PJ comes up with a cunning plan to get the dough, involving a sock, a prosthetic leg and a pawnbroker. Ruthless is a humorous, heartwarming story of how a prosthetic leg and a T. Rex album become the conduit for overcoming grief.

Daddy's Deadly Secret

The disappearance of a little girl in a small town forces a husband and wife to unearth a web of lies and deceit, ultimately questioning if the child ever existed at all.