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Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland 1923. Reverend Mother Aquinas is buying buttered eggs in the Cork city market at the very moment when the city engineer, James Doyle, is assassinated. Although no one saw the actual killing, a young reporter named Sam O'Mahony is found standing close to the body, a pistol in his hand, and is arrested and charged. Following a desperate appeal from Sam's mother, convinced of her son's innocence, the Reverend Mother investigates -- and, in this...
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1920s. Cork, Ireland. Early one morning the Reverend Mother receives news of a deadly fire at the local cigarette factory, a place where she'd been so proud that some of her pupils had been given a steady job. In a city full of poverty, unemployment andpolitical unrest, these ex pupils of hers had surely been blessed with such prospects. Now, though, she is worried . . . What happened at the cigarette factory and why are there rumours circulating...
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cork, Ireland, 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel, she immediately sends for one of her former pupils, Police Sergeant Patrick Cashman, to investigate. Dead bodies ar not unusual in the poverty-stricken slums of Cork, but this one is dressed in evening finery; in her handbag is a dance program for the exclusive Merchants' Ball held the previous evening--and a midnight ticket...
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Despite its regal name, the Queen's Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store, housed within the decrepit walls of what was once a medieval castle, built at the harbour entrance to Cork city. On her first visit for fifty years, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed - apart, that is, from the strange smell of gas ... But when the store's owner staggers from his office and topples over the railings to his death, Mother...
Author
Series
Hugh Mac Egan volume 1
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Hugh Mac Egan has arrived from Ireland to draw up the marriage contract between James Butler, son of his employer the Earl of Ormond, and Anne Boleyn - a dynastic alliance that will resolve an age-old inheritance dispute. But Anne, it seems, has other ideas. Her heart is set on Harry Percy, heir to the magnificent earldom of Northumberland, sparking rivalry between the two young men. When a member of Cardinal Wolsey's palace staff is found...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to the sandy beach of Fanore, on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer and investigating magistrate: a dead man lying in a boat with no oars. Immediately her scholars jump to the conclusion that the man has been found guilty of kin-murder. The Brehon sentence for this worst of all crimes is that the murderer...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a woman's body is found strangled and bound to an ancient stone god which stands above the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her, but Mara takes up the task of uncovering the real killer.
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While at a feast at the castle of Bunratty in Thomond, the Brehon of Thomond is mysteriously found dead and the castle comes under siege, and Mara must figure out whether the murder and attack are connected.
A festive celebration turns into a fight for survival when Mara and her clan come under attack... Christmas 1519 is the twentieth anniversary of King Turlough Donn’s reign over the three kingdoms of Thomond, Corcomroe and Burren, so Mara and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Wilkie Collins is looking forward to spending Christmas at Gads Hill, Charles Dickens' Kentish country home, but the festivities are cut short when a body is found on the snowy marshland. Timmy O'Connor was invited to the gathering with his four nephews after a chance encounter with Dickens, but is now dead. Dickens is convinced the murderer is one of the convicts from a nearby prison ship, but Collins is not so sure. Who was this mysterious and...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When fire destroys an important relic in Kilnaboy Church and then the pilgrim who confessed to the crime is murdered, Mara and her law students set out to discover how he was killed and the murderer's identity.
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense of humour. But one autumn morning, Sister Gertrude is found dead inside a small wooden shed, just beside the river. Surely a young nun could not die from alcohol poisoning? But when the Reverend Mother delves more deeply into Sister Gertrude's background, she finds some puzzling anomalies....
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery. Ireland. 1925. Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. But nothing like this. On opening the evil-smelling trunk, labelled old books, the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover it contains the dead body of one of Corks richest merchants, wrapped in decomposing animal hides....
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Cora Harrison) volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Cora Harrison) volume 3
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyon. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion,...
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action again when one of her young pupils is found murdered at St Fin Barre's Cathedral. 1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother's Christmas Day festivities are shattered when the protestant bishop of Cork arrives at the convent with terrible news: one of the Reverend Mother's pupils, the troublesome seven-year-old Edna O'Sullivan, has been found murdered in St Fin Barre's Cathedral. Furthermore,...
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