Off the Map by Trish Doller

March 11, 2023

Trish Doller’s female characters just speak to me. If you read Float Plan, you might remember Anne, whose fiance died, and she impulsively decided to sail the world. In Off the Map, readers can catch up with Anne when Carla Black flies to Ireland to be maid of...

The Deadly Weed by Cora Harrison

March 06, 2023

The Deadly Weed is the tenth Reverend Mother mystery set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s. I appreciate Cora Harrison’s series for the history and atmospheric contrast between the poor and the slums of Cork and the moneyed class. But, this time, the book was...

Murder at an Irish Bakery by Carlene O’Connor

February 21, 2023

The ninth in Carlene O’Connor’s Irish Village mystery series, Murder at an Irish Bakery, is my favorite in the series. There are several reasons. First, I didn’t feel overwhelmed by all of the members of Garda Siobhan O’Sullivan’s family....

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...

Murder at an Irish Castle by Ellie Brannigan

February 05, 2023

I don’t know if this is a compliment or not, but I certainly intended it as one. I found myself so caught up in the relationships and characters in Ellie Brannigan’s Murder at an Irish Castle, that I forgot there had been a suspicious death, and there was...