YMMV / Dublin Murder Squad

• Vanilla Protagonist: Stephen Moran in The Secret Place; all the other leads in the series have pretty colorful personalities and tragic backstories which play heavily into the narrative. Stephen's life, while not easy, has comparatively been far less traumatic and he's much more well-adjusted as a result. His main hangup is the fact that he's never really been the kind of person to make or want friends, but upon seeing Holly's bond with her group and finding how well he works with Conway, his perspective on the matter changes. Seemingly to compensate for this, Secret Place is the only book in the series to have another point of view other than first-person, with the novel alternating between Stephen's first person narration and a third person narrator focusing on Holly and her friends.