It’s wedding time in Inishowen, the peninsula of County Donegal in Ireland. Leah, office manager and administrative assistant to attorney Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe, is getting married. The ceremony is set at Greysbridge, the new hotel operated by Ian and Abby Grey. It was once Ian’s family home, but the property had been gambled away by his grandfather in the 1930s. He’s realized something of a dream in buying the home and remodeling it; Leah’s wedding is the first big event held there.
Ben is reading a poem during the wedding, so she’s spending the entire weekend there. Her romantic interest, police Sgt. Tom Molloy, has been in southern Ireland, possibly transferred permanently. His communications with her diminished and then stopped altogether. Ben has had a few dates in town with the new doctor, a cousin of Leah’s, but, so far, that’s all it’s been – a few dates.
She’s heard the stories of Greysbridge being haunted, and her room once belonged to Louisa Grey, who died in 1914 and is said to haunt the place. And some weird things begin to happen. Two non-wedding guests are staying at the hotel as well, an American medical student cycling through Ireland and a librarian / writer who’s keen on the house’s history and the stories of the people who lived there.
Andrea Carter
Shortly after the wedding ceremony, the medical student dies from what appears to be an accidental drowning. Then the body of the librarian / writer is found in his room, in what looks like death from poisoning. And who unexpectedly arrives to take charge of the investigation but Sgt. Tom Molloy, back from his sojourn in the south.
Murder at Greysbridge is the fourth Inishowen mystery by Irish writer Andrea Carter. It’s a strong tale of old family secrets, new family secrets, unexpected connections, and a slight bit of romance. It was going to be hard to imagine the stories without Sgt. Tom Molloy, and it was encouraging to see Carter bring him back in.
Carter studied law at Trinity College Dublin and managed the most northerly solicitor’s practice in the Republic of Ireland. In 2006, she moved to Dublin to work as a barrister and then turned to writing crime novels. She’s published five Inishowen mysteries featuring solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe: Death at Whitewater Church, Treacherous Strand, The Well of Ice, Murder at Greysbridge, and The Body Falls.
Murder at Greysbridge is another finely spun story the series featuring “the most northernly practicing attorney in the Republic of Ireland.”
Related:
Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter.
Treacherous Strand by Andrea Carter.
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