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Book 1 of 2: A Home to Ireland Mystery

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In the first installment of bestselling author Carlene O'Connor's new Home to Ireland Mystery series, New York Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway, Ireland may be her last.

Jump right into the beauty and splendor—and murder—of Tara’s Irish adventure! With a gorgeous setting, suspicious characters, and a deadly mystery—Murder in Galway will have you packing your bags…

Tara never imagined her introduction to Ireland like this—carrying her mam's ashes to honor her final request: "Tell Johnny I'm sorry...Take me home." She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately charmed by the medieval city, the locals seem wary of strangers and a gypsy warns her that death is all around.

When Tara arrives at her uncle's stone cottage, the prophesy seems true. A dead man lies sprawled over the threshold in a pool of blood. The victim turns out to be Johnny's wealthiest client, and her missing uncle is the garda's number-one suspect. In trying to find Johnny and solve the crime, Tara uncovers her mam and uncle's troubled past. But with a desperate killer about, she had better mind herself, or they'll be tossing her ashes in Galway Bay...

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April 28, 2020
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Carlene O'Connor is the USA Today bestselling author of the acclaimed Irish Village Mysteries and the Home to Ireland Mysteries. She comes from a long line of Irish storytellers. Her great-grandmother emigrated from Ireland filled with tales in 1897 and the stories have been flowing ever since. Of all the places across the pond she's wandered, she fell most in love with a walled town in County Limerick and was inspired to create the town of Kilbane, County Cork. Carlene currently divides her time between Chicago and the Emerald Isle. Please visit her online at CarleneOConnor.net. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07TT34D26
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kensington Cozies (April 28, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 28, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1108 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #23,120 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #113 in Mystery
- #195 in Cozy Culinary Mystery
- #212 in Cozy Culinary Mysteries

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Carlene O’Connor comes from a long line of Irish storytellers. Her great-grandmother emigrated from Ireland to America during the Troubles, and the stories have been flowing ever since. Of all the places across the pond she’s wandered, she fell most in love with a walled town in County Limerick and was inspired to create the town of Kilbane, County Cork. Carlene currently divides her time between New York and the Emerald Isle.

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M. W. Nason

This is a great book

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2020

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This was a great read. I can’t wait until the next one in the series comes out.I love this Author and enjoyed the many characters and the uncertainty of who the killer was. Tara was a very interesting protagonist and I enjoyed how her mind worked out this whole Drama. I totally recommend this book.

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First Book In New Series

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2021

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** 3.5 Stars **
I am an avid reader of this author’s Irish Village Mystery series and was very excited to see she has started this new series – also based in Ireland. I believe the author splits her year between living in Ireland and living in the United States.

Tara Meehan has come to Galway, Ireland to spread her mother’s ashes and to carry a message from her mother to Johnny Meehan, her mother’s estranged brother. Tara doesn’t even know if her uncle Johnny is alive. She’s never met him, never corresponded with him – no contact, ever. She has no idea what caused the rift between her mother and her uncle, so she has no idea what kind of reception she’ll get from him. Almost as soon as she arrived, the box containing her mother’s ashes was ripped from her hand by a street juggler and ended up opened and covering a stranger who had tried to retrieve it for her – then, directly on the heels of that, she discovered a dead body in the doorway of her uncle’s cottage. What a way to begin her stay in Galway!

Believing the body belonged to her uncle Johnny, she called the Garda (Irish police) and told them she’d found the body of Johnny Meehan. She also told others that she’d found Johnny’s body and nobody seemed surprised. Evidently, her uncle wasn’t an esteemed member of the community. When the body is officially identified, it isn’t Johnny Meehan but his best customer, Emmett Walsh, and her uncle Johnny is the suspect in the murder. With Uncle Johnny missing and the police not looking for other suspects, Tara believes it is her family duty to show that her uncle isn’t guilty – or – if he is, to help find him and turn him in.

The mystery is a good one with lots of potential suspects and victims. I was pretty sure who the culprit was almost as soon as they graced the page, but I certainly had no clue why that would be the case. There are many red herrings, many possible scenarios for the murder to have happened, and some really strange happenings going on in Johnny’s life. Tara finds yet another body, and this one had her uncle’s business card lying right there in the blood. Goodness wasn’t that convenient. The Garda doubles down on Johnny as the prime suspect and tells Tara to leave Ireland immediately – for her own safety of course. Can Tara and her uncle’s employee, Danny O’Donnell, solve the mystery before Detective Sergeant Gable finds and arrests her uncle? Danny is not a willing participant in the investigation, but he does what he can to help Tara.

This book just didn’t reach right out and pull me into the story. I didn’t care for any of the characters other than perhaps Danny. I also didn’t care for the anti-American sentiments which seemed to be espoused by the residents of Galway. I’m sure there are probably those with the anti-American sentiments in the real Galway, but I’d wager it isn’t as prevalent as the author intimated it was. With so many suspects, red-herrings, and things going on I would have thought the book would be fast-paced and suspenseful, but I actually found parts of it a bit dull.

While I wasn’t in love with this first offering, I’ll definitely try the next book in the series to see where things go. The first book in a series often isn’t the best the series has to offer because it has to fill so many functions – such as introducing us to the characters, setting up the series's premise, etc., and providing a compelling story. If the second book is like this one, I’ll probably not follow the series, but I’m sure I’ll become a series fan if it picks up the pace.

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Fantastic

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2020

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I found this book to be completely engrossing. I read it in one session, my eyes are so tired I just could not out it down. There were so many twists and turns that it kept me guessing until almost the end (which is unusual for me). I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to all. Enjoy the read!

6 people found this helpful

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Maureen Addiego

Visiting Ireland through the eyes of an American with serious sleuthing skills

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020

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Good story and I look forward to more stories with these characters. I especially like the location as I've been lucky enough to be I. Ireland 3 times including visiting Galways twice. I've even been to Salthill. I enjoy revisiting these locations through the eyes of these characters. I can't wait to see what other adventures these characters will have in the future. Where else will they visit?

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ysing

Starts off slowly, but then….

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2021

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Then it begins to pick up speed! This is a quite complicated storyline and a few times I wasn’t sure I could keep up with all the twists and turns. But, even with the twists and turns it is a very enjoyable story. Makes me want to visit Galway (definitely added to my bucket list). There was one thing that distracted me though…she calls the police “guards” they are actually “garda”. They are Garda Siochana (Guardian of the Peace). But, that is a minor “flaw” in an otherwise terrific story. I am surely looking forward to the next book.

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Roger Vincent

Mystery in a small Irish village.

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2021

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The main character is Siobhan O'Sullivan who is second oldest of a family of six.
Her mother and father were killed in a suspicious car accident.
Her older brother, Seamus, is a recovering alcoholic, so Siobhan is really the acting head of the family.
She has a boyfriend who is head of Garda (police) in the small town of Kilbane.
Strange and suspicious things are happening , so Siobhan sets herself out to see what is going
going on-----!!!!

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Mary E. Roff

Book not well written

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2021

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Book was somewhat boring. Did not even finish it.

4 people found this helpful

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Kindle Customer

Another great read

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020

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Thank you Carlene O'Connor. This was another great and enjoyable read. I have read and enjoyed every Irish Village Mystery in your other series and look forward to more books in your new Home to Ireland series. I highly recommend this book!

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Amazon Customer

Intense, you won’t want to put this one down!

Reviewed in Canada on May 3, 2021

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Tara arrives in Galway, Ireland to meet her estranged uncle and release her mother’s ashes to the Bay. She discovers a murdered man in her Uncle ‘s doorway . Initially Tara thinks it’s her Uncle who is dead but soon she finds it is a business client and her Uncle has become the prime suspect for the murder.
Tara begins a twisted, intense search for her uncle and for the truth behind the brutal murder. This is a must read for any mystery lover ! Curl up and enjoy!

MaryA

New series captures Galway and her people.

Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2020

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Story flowed throughout. Enjoyed character development and depictions of different places, people, and Galway area.

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