Cycle of Violence is both a thriller and a provocative love story which eschews the conventional approach to Northern Ireland.

Kevin, a young journalist who travels everywhere on his mountain bike , his 'cycle of violence', has been sent by his Belfast newspaper editor to work on its sister paper in the small country town of Crossmaheart. Jamie Milburn, his predecessor on the local paper, has disappeared and is presumed dead. Once there Kevin realises that the paper is doing little to find out what happened to Jamie - the topic is consistently avoided. Kevin is compelled to investigate and meets Jamie's girlfriend, the attractive Marie. She tells him that she believes that Jamie was killed over a story he was working on. With the help of police sergeant Craig, Kevin unravels a web of intrigue going back over fifteen years, at the same time unlocking Marie's ghosts from the past.