From Publishers Weekly
Torrey Tunet, the American translator (and accidental sleuth) holed up in the Irish town of Ballynaugh, has more trouble on her hands when wealthy widow and affordable housing advocate Natalie Sylvester Cameron ("A darling. High heels. Spotless reputation") finds herself being blackmailed. The Irish Cairn Murder: A Torrey Tunet Mystery, Dicey Deere's follow-up to The Irish Manor House Murder, shows off some intricate plotting and a cast of eccentrics, including Jasper, Tunet's overweight gourmand boyfriend, and her rival, the inept and vengeful Inspector O'Hare.
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From Booklist
Torrey Tunet lives in a cottage by Ballynagh when she isn't traipsing across Europe to ply her trade as an interpreter. The expat American has an Irish journalist boyfriend named Jasper, who's a bit overweight but a great cook. After Torrey is rescued from a couple of teen louts by a local boy named Dakin, she is surprised when Dakin turns up again as the carpenter who fixes her cottage window frame. Dakin and his mother, it turns out, have been receiving phone calls and letters threatening to reveal a secret that neither of them knows. A stranger comes to town, then another; the first is murdered, and the second attacked. As a tale of repression, revenge, amnesia, and sexual mores unfolds, Torrey and Jasper snoop, search, and eventually orchestrate the classic Christie-type denouement wherein all the players gather in a room and the final truths are revealed. The writing is pleasant and swift; some of the plot lines stretch credulity a wee bit, but the quaint Irish color is beguiling.
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