Murder at an Irish Christmas by Carlene O'Connor

Murder at an Irish Christmas

Carlene O'Connor

Kensington · Paperback · October 26, 2021

Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan’s holiday plans hit a sour note when murder rearranges the yuletide carols into unexpected eulogies ...

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Who it’s for
A holiday mystery blends family tensions, musical connections, and a murder under a harp.
Genres
Cozy Holiday Mysteries, Women Detectives, Holiday Fiction
Published
Kensington, October 26, 2021

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Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan’s holiday plans hit a sour note when murder rearranges the yuletide carols into unexpected eulogies ... This December in Kilbane, if you’re planning to warm up with a cuppa tea at Naomi’s Bistro, you may have a bit of a wait—the entire O’Sullivan brood has gone off to West Cork to spend the holidays with brother James’s fiancée Elise’s family, including her grandfather, the famous orchestral conductor Enda Elliot.

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Siobhán is so happy for James and Elise but also quietly disappointed that she must put her own wedding to fellow garda Macdara Flannery on hold. Mac will have to join them later, so he can spend part of the holidays with his mam. When the O’Sullivans learn everyone will choose a name from a hat to buy a music-related Christmas gift for someone else at the gathering, it seems like their greatest concern—until the cantankerous conductor is discovered crushed under a ninety-pound harp in a local concert hall. With the extended family—including Enda’s much-younger new wife Leah, a virtuoso violinist—suspected in his murder, it's up to Siobhán to ensure the guilty party faces the music before the killer orchestrates another untimely demise...

Carols and Clues

A holiday mystery blends family tensions, musical connections, and a murder under a harp.

Come here for

  • A Christmas gathering where music-themed gifts meet a murder investigation
  • A warm, playful mystery with a Garda at its center

Expect

  • Yuletide coziness with an untimely body in the concert hall
  • Siobhán investigating as family members come under suspicion

Where it sits

Cozy Holiday Mysteries98%
Holiday Fiction32%
Women Detectives30%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Women Detectives
  • Cozy Mysteries
  • International Crime Fiction
Authors
Carlene O'Connor
Publisher
Kensington
Published
October 26, 2021
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Women Detectives