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Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Wealthy widow Charlotte Hendrick had always promised that her riches would be divided equally between her seven closest relatives when she died. Now she has changed her mind and summoned her nearest and dearest, including her cousin, the Reverend Mother, to her substantial home on Bachelor's Quay to inform them of her decision. As Mrs Hendrick's relatives desperately make their case to retain a share of her wealth, riots break out on the quays outside...
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Severn House
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English
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"On opening an evil-smelling trunk labelled `old books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants. Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins merchant, but when suspicion falls on a former lay sister from her convent, the Reverend Mother decides to help find the real killer."--Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all, Father Dominic had lent a listening ear to sinners of all kinds: gunmen and policemen; prostitutes and nuns; prosperous businessmen and petty swindlers; tradesmen...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense of humour. But one autumn morning, Sister Gertrude is found dead inside a small wooden shed, just beside the river. Surely a young nun could not die from alcohol poisoning? But when the Reverend Mother delves more deeply into Sister Gertrude's background, she finds some puzzling anomalies....
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Severn House
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English
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Mara, Brehon of the Burren, visits Galway with her pupils where they sit in on a hearing for a poor man who faces death for stealing a meat pie, and Mara investigates a case in which the mayor's son is accused of a terrible crime.
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Severn House
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English
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While celebrating the christening of her son, Mara realizes that three of her law students have disappeared from the gathering and after one of them is found dead the next morning she begins an investigation into his death and searches to find the other missing students.
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Reverend Mother receives news of a deadly fire at the local cigarette factory, a place which had given a city full of poverty and political unrest a place of employment for many of her ex pupils. But why are there rumours circulating that one of her 'girls' was responsible? The Reverend Mother must again investigate and uncover the truth!
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Ireland 1923. Reverend Mother Aquinas is buying buttered eggs in the Cork city market at the very moment when the city engineer, James Doyle, is assassinated. Although no one saw the actual killing, a young reporter named Sam O'Mahony is found standing close to the body, a pistol in his hand, and is arrested and charged. Following a desperate appeal from Sam's mother, convinced of her son's innocence, the Reverend Mother investigates -- and, in this...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The peaceful atmosphere of the Reverend Mother's annual retreat is shattered by sudden, violent death in this gripping historical mystery. 1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother regrets the bishop's decision to invite the five candidates for the position of Alderman of the City Council to join them for their annual retreat. Constantly accosted by ambitious, would-be politicians hoping to secure the bishop's backing, she's finding the week-long...
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Series
Burren mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur paperback edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mara, a judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, arrives in a small independent kingdom on the west coast of Ireland, a land that lives according to the ancient Celtic laws, to investigate the mysterious death of her assistant during a May Day festival.
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Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action again when one of her young pupils is found murdered at St Fin Barre's Cathedral. 1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother's Christmas Day festivities are shattered when the protestant bishop of Cork arrives at the convent with terrible news: one of the Reverend Mother's pupils, the troublesome seven-year-old Edna O'Sullivan, has been found murdered in St Fin Barre's Cathedral. Furthermore,...
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