Now in paperback--Carlene O'Connor's fifth book in the USA Today
bestselling Irish Village Mystery Series sends Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan
to a superstitious rural village for a murder investigation in which the
prime suspects happen to be fairies...
Family is everything to Siobhán: her five siblings; her dearly departed
mother for whom the family business, Naomi's Bistro, is named; and now
her fiancé, Macdara Flannery. So precious is her engagement that Siobhán
wants to keep it just between the two of them for a little longer.
But Macdara is her family, which is why when his cousin Susan
frantically calls for his help, Siobhán is at his side as the two garda
rush from Kilbane to the rural village where Susan and her mother have
recently moved. Unfortunately, tragedy awaits them. They find Susan, who
is blind, outside the cottage, in a state. Inside, Aunt Ellen lies on
her bed in a fancy red dress, no longer breathing. A pillow on the floor
and a nearby teacup suggest the mode of death to their trained eyes: the
woman has been poisoned and smothered. Someone wanted to make sure she
was dead. But who?
Devout believers in Irish folklore, the villagers insist the cottage is
cursed--built on a fairy path. It turns out Ellen Delaney was not the
first to die mysteriously in this cottage. Although the townsfolk blame
malevolent fairies, Siobhán and Macdara must follow the path of a
murderer all too human--but just as evil...