A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor

June 20, 2023

I’ll admit Sarah Stewart Taylor’s atmospheric depiction of Ireland stole my heart in her first Maggie D’arcy mystery, The Mountains Wild. Now, the fourth in the series, A Stolen Child, is a solid police procedural with plot twists to keep the reader...

Death in Irish Accents by Catie Murphy

February 20, 2023

I haven’t read all of the Dublin Driver mysteries, but I think I’ve read enough. Like Megan Malone’s girlfriend, Jelena, in Death in Irish Accents, the fourth investigation in as many books was enough for me. It’s no wonder people are calling...

Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy

January 14, 2023

Death in Heels is Kitty Murphy’s first Dublin Drag Mystery. I’ll admit right up front that it wasn’t the drag queens I had trouble with; it was the protagonist, Fi McKinnery. Although the drag community at TRASH, a Dublin drag club had a number of...

Dead in Dublin by Catie Murphy

January 13, 2020

Well, I found a new cozy mystery series to love. Dead in Dublin may be a debut mystery, but Catie Murphy has written science fiction/fantasy as C.E. Murphy, so it’s quite polished. It doesn’t hurt that it’s set in Dublin with actual buildings and...

The Red-Letter Day by SP McArdle

November 28, 2016

There’s a story behind this story. The Red-Letter Day is a juvenile book for ages 8-12 by SP McArdle who is related to my brother-in-law, Kevin. When we were in Dublin, Kevin’s cousin, John Henry, mentioned their cousin had written a children’s book...