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"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...
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It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences for minor crimes.
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Burren mysteries volume 8
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Mara, Brehon of the Burren, visits Galway with her pupils where they sit in on a hearing for a poor man who faces death for stealing a meat pie, and Mara investigates a case in which the mayor's son is accused of a terrible crime.
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Burren mysteries volume 3
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Minotaur Books
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2009
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355 p. ; 25 cm.
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Burren mysteries volume 5
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In 1510 Ireland, a great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Iarla, bears a letter that claims that the wealthy Ardal O'Lochlainn is his true father, which Ardal vociferously denies. So when Iarla is found dead, with one eye missing, some think he was killed by the god--but most suspect Ardal. Mara, the Brehon--or lawgiver--of the Burren, is called to investigate....
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Burren mysteries volume 11
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Severn House
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2014.
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196 pages ; 23 cm.
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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.
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Burren mysteries volume 12
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Severn House
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2015.
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199 pages ; 23 cm.
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When Mara finds a dead man lying in a boat with no oars, her scholars jump to the conclusion that the man has been found guilty of kin-murder, but Mara notices something odd and embarks on a full-scale murder investigation.
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Reverend Mother mysteries volume 1
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Severn House
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2015.
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248 pages ; 22 cm.
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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...
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Burren mysteries volume 10
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Severn House
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2014.
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215 pages ; 23 cm.
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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.
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