Crime runs rampant in the picturesque town of Leixleap -- and
onIreland's famed River Shannon, where brazen thieves illegally
harvestthe gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. But while
poachingmay be something the local Eel Police division is
well-equippedto handle, murder is wholly another matter.Chief Inspector
Peter McGarr has been called out from Dublin to investigate a troubling
double homicide. The nude body of young, pretty, and, recently married
Eel Policewoman Ellen Gilday Finn has been discoveredin the bed of a
hot-sheet inn -- wrapped around the equally unclothedcorpse of her much
older boss, Pascal Burke. A crime of passion, perhaps, pointing to
Ellen's cuckolded newly wedded husband as the perpetrator. But
conflicting clues and false confessions are leading McGarrinto dangerous
hidden corners where greed, corruption, IRA terror andradical, possibly
deadly, environmentalism are but a few of the, dark blooms secretly
nourished in the rich loam of the Irish countryside.