- this edition supplied by my local library
- published by Kensington Books 2019
- 330 pages
- #1 in Home to Ireland Mystery
Synopsis (publisher)
In the first installment of bestselling author Carlene O'Connor's new Home to Ireland Mystery series, New York Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway, Ireland may be her last.
Jump right into the beauty and splendor--and murder--of Tara's Irish adventure! With a gorgeous setting, suspicious characters, and a deadly mystery--Murder in Galway will have you packing your bags...
Tara never imagined her introduction to Ireland like this--carrying her mam's ashes to honor her final request: "Tell Johnny I'm sorry...Take me home." She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately charmed by the medieval city, the locals seem wary of strangers and a gypsy warns her that death is all around.
When Tara arrives at her uncle's stone cottage, the prophesy seems true. A dead man lies sprawled over the threshold in a pool of blood. The victim turns out to be Johnny's wealthiest client, and her missing uncle is the garda's number-one suspect. In trying to find Johnny and solve the crime, Tara uncovers her mam and uncle's troubled past. But with a desperate killer about, she had better mind herself, or they'll be tossing her ashes in Galway Bay...
My Take
This was quite a complicated story, lots of plot strands, so much to keep track of...
From the moment Tara Meehan arrives in Galway, people seem to be telling her to go home, except the garda who keep telling her not to leave town. Tara has aimed to meet up with her uncle, whom she has never met, and then to scatter her mother's ashes. She accidentally does the latter first, and then, at her uncle's cottage encounters a body which she assumes is his. But, not foer the first or last time, she is wrong.
The problem is that Tara does not know who to trust, and they don't know if they can trust her.
My rating: 4.1
I've also read
Kerry Mystery series
- 4.5, NO STRANGERS HERE - #1 County Kerry Mystery series
- 4.6, SOME OF US ARE LOOKING - #2 County Kerry Mystery series
Irish Village Mystery series
- 4.4, MURDER IN AN IRISH CHURCHYARD - Irish Village Mystery #3
- 4.4, MURDER ON AN IRISH FARM - Irish Village Mystery #8
No comments:
Post a Comment
If you want to leave a direct link to your blog posting, click name, you will see the URL field opening up. Type your name and leave your blog posting's URL and readers will be able to jump straight to your blog.
======================
Thank you also for your interest in my blog.
From time to time you will find these comments have been put into moderation - I'll try to approve them as quickly as I can.