Review
Small-town stories featuring crimes of a more personal nature and starring an unassuming, methodical protagonist. . . Charles is a fine storyteller, and this shapes up to be a fine series, different in tone from the Kennedy novels but equally involving. -- Booklist "Booklist"
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
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Book Description
As the Sweeney clan gathers at Liam Sweeney's farm in County Donegal, Ireland to celebrate his birthday, the banter and storytelling are abundant. But with the arrival of Inspector Starrett it becomes clear that all is not well with the Sweeneys as the body of one family member has just been discovered in suspicious circumstances. Starrett's investigation leads him into the weird and wonderful politics of family life as he discovers that many of his suspects are Sweeneys. "Charles is a fine storyteller."-Booklist "[Starrett] is a first-rate addition to the topmost ranks of UK police detectives."-I Love a Mystery
