I've had a chance to read ARCs of the first two titles in Andrea Carter's Inishowen series. I liked both books - I found the mysteries themselves suitably puzzling, if a bit bleak, but I enjoyed the setting and sense of the remote Inishowen peninsula even more.
Treacherous Strand, the second in the series, has now dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable), and the first title,
Death at Whitewater Church, is still $0.99 at Kindle US (but not on sale at Kobo US).
Death at Whitewater Church, #1, at Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DZ1WHP3/
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Perfect for fans of Louise Penny, P. D. James, and Donna Leon
When a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previously. But the postmortem reveals otherwise.
Solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church, and although an unwelcome face from her past makes her reluctant to get involved, when Conor’s brother dies in strange circumstances shortly after coming to see her, she finds herself drawn in to the mystery. Whose is the skeleton in the crypt and how did it get there? Is Conor Devitt still alive, and if so, is there a link? What happened on the morning of his wedding to make him disappear?
Negotiating between the official investigation—headed up by the handsome but surly Sergeant Tom Molloy—and obstructive locals with secrets of their own, Ben unravels layers of personal and political history to get to the truth of what happened six years before.
Death at Whitewater Church is the first in a series of Ben O’Keeffe mysteries set on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland.
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Treacherous Strand, #2, at Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TRD9Z31
and at Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/treacherous-strand-2
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Perfect for mystery readers who enjoy character driven mysteries, with a strong female protagonist and a powerful sense of place
A woman’s body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen Peninsula. Partially clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area. Solicitor Ben (Benedicta) O’Keeffe is consumed by guilt: for the second time in her life Ben has failed someone who needed her, with tragic consequences. When local sergeant Tom Molloy dismisses Marguerite’s death as the suicide of a disturbed and lonely woman, Ben cannot let it lie. Ben uncovers Marguerite’s strange past as a member of a French doomsday cult, which she escaped twenty years previously, but not without leaving her baby daughter behind. Disturbed by what appears to be chilling local indifference to Marguerite’s death, Ben pieces together the last few weeks of the French woman’s life in Inishowen. What she discovers causes her to question the fragile nature of her own position in the area, and she finds herself crossing boundaries—both personal and professional—to unearth local secrets long buried.
Treacherous Strand is the second in a series of mysteries set in the fictional town of Glendara on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal with amateur sleuth, a tsolicitor Ben O’Keeffe. These atmospheric and immersive mysteries are being adapted as elevision series to be filmed in Inishowen.
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