Fiction / Crime Drama (Ireland)
171 pages / 3328 KB
5 stars
A delightful murder mystery. Ireland is one of the lands on my bucket list that I want to visit. I loved the old movie, Ryan’s Daughter, and I loved this book. It’s the first of 10 in the series, and I look forward to reading more.
I found quite a bit of unintended humor—several words mean one thing in British English than in American English. A jumper over there is a sweater over here.
A young woman drives a narrow road during a nasty storm to visit her mother. There are rocks on the road. She stops. Moves the rocks, and sees the body of a woman in the ditch, dead. Later, she discovers she knew the unidentified woman, went to college with her, and they had a row. Is she a suspect? Is the wealthy boyfriend? Her brother visiting from Poland? There is no limit on the suspects, and though I wasn’t shocked at the outcome, I found it quite satisfactory.
Great fun to read a police procedural with no blazing gunfights, no dangerous car chases through city streets, and a bare use of foul language (there is some, but it fits the story).
I look forward to the next books, and sharing a pint with the Garda as they tell me how they caught the perp. Although, I’m not sure when I go to Ireland I want to visit Galway—they seem to have a lot of murders there ;-). (Perhaps Galway is the Irish equivalent to Midsomer, England?)
