County Cork Mysteries (Book 1-4) - Sheila Connolly

Category: Crime, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Amateur Sleuths Contemporary County Cork Mysteries Cozy Mystery Ireland Irish Literature Women Sleuths

Written by Sheila Connolly
Read by Amy Rubinate
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

#1 Buried in a Bog

Honoring the wish of her late grandmother, Maura Donovan visits the small Irish village where her Gran was born - though she never expected to get bogged down in a murder mystery. Nor had she planned to take a job in one of the local pubs, but she finds herself excited to get to know the people who knew her Gran. In the pub, she’s swamped with drink orders as everyone in town gathers to talk about the recent discovery of a nearly 100-year-old body in a nearby bog. When Maura realizes she may know something about the dead man - and that the body’s connected to another, more recent, death - she fears she’s about to become mired in a homicide investigation.

#2 Scandal in Skibbereen

Bostonian Maura is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home, just in time for summer tourist season to bring fresh business to her pub. But the first traveler to arrive is thirsty for more than just a pint of Guinness. Althea Melville is hot on the trail of a long-lost Van Dyck painting. Maura agrees to help Althea meet with the residents at the local manor house, the most likely location of the missing art. But when the manor’s gardener is found murdered, Maura wonders what Althea’s real motives are.

#3 An Early Wake

Summer is ending in County Cork, Ireland, and with it the tourist season. Expat Maura Donovan is determined to keep Sullivan’s Pub in the black as the days grow shorter - but how? She wonders if bringing back live music might be Sullivan’s salvation.
As word gets out, legendary musicians begin to appear at the pub. But things hit a sour note when Maura finds a dead musician in the back room the next morning.

#4 A Turn for the Bad

A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone from the local Gardaí to the Coast Guard is scouring the Cork coast, but when a body is finally brought ashore, it’s the wrong man. An accidental drowning or something more sinister?

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