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Local benefactress and celebrated biographer Mary-Jo Stanton is a supplicant to death -- left lifeless on her knees in a patch of daffodils, a barbaric religious implement wrapped tightly around her neck. A clergyman has approached Peter McGarr, requesting that the Chief Superintendent quietly investigate this outrage that occurred at Barbastro, the slain grand lady's compoundlike Dublin estate. Murder is McGarr's business, but this one might be his...
4) Soul murder
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When Maurice Tyson, housemaster at a top boys' boarding school in Ireland, is found with his throat slit, Superintendent Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power, struggle to uncover any probable motive for the brutal killing. Was it revenge? A kidnap attempt gone wrong? Or is there a connection to a former student who killed himself barely a year ago? Then a boy mysteriously disappears.--From publisher's description.
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304 pages ; 25 cm
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"It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son -- who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye produces a pistol, points it at his own chest, and fires. This mysterious death immediately engages the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett, who in turn calls upon the services of his sometime partner Quirke, consultant pathologist at the Hospital...
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297 pages ; 22 cm
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When a controversial U.S. diplomat is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Devlin is disciplined for the lapse in security. When the killing of an illegal immigrant near the Irish border shows connections to the attack, Devlin begins to suspect that the business is a front for something far more sinister than mere mining.
7) Snow
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299 pages ; 24 cm
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Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
1957. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate when a parish priest is found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The Catholic...
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