Author: Carlene O'Connor
Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781496719843
Kensington Publishing
330 Pages
$7.99; $5.99 Amazon
May 2019
May 2019
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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...
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When Tara Meehan goes to Ireland, it's to spread her mam's ashes in the sea and meet her Uncle Johnny for the first time. But when she arrives at her uncle's cottage, she finds a dead body, and assumes it's him. When she's later informed that it's instead a wealthy man who was her uncle's client, and that he's suspected of the murder, she doesn't want to believe it.
So she sets about trying to find her uncle and discover who is framing him for murder. But after a dire warning from a local gypsy, and a threatening message on the side of her uncle's mill, Tara is more determined than ever to find a killer...unless the killer finds her first...
This is the first book in a new series by Carlene O'Connor, who also writes the Irish Village Mysteries. While I have as yet to read any of them, I still am glad that I read this one. My feelings toward the book are conflicted, as on the one hand, Ireland seems like a charming place to visit, but on the other hand, the locals seem as if they don't want Americans in their country. None of the locals - save for Danny, our potential love interest - seem to like Tara being in their midst, and many are quite rude to her. Also, the characters aren't really fleshed-out, but I am hoping that in later books we learn more about Danny, Tara, and what their and others' lives were like in the past.
That being said, the mystery was decent and kept me interested, and the ending was expected if one is looking for the clues which are throughout. The only thing I can add is that while I would have liked to have known more about the countryside, the characters, and Tara, perhaps this will be given in future books, and I plan to read the next in the series. Recommended.
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Galway-Home-Ireland-Mystery/dp/149672447X/ref=
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3143582527
More on Carlene O'Connor's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/o/carlene-oconnor/
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