From Booklist
Torrey Tunet is a smart American lass, though too nosy for her own good. She's an interpreter--a gift for languages so sharp she wonders if it is genetic--and uses her Irish home as a base to her work on the continent. When a local scholar is murdered by shotgun in his own study, Torrey can't help but pocket the diary, in Greek, that she finds there. A craven scholar's assistant, a dour local potter, and the familiar denizens of the town and pub provide distraction while Torrey laboriously translates the astonishing tale. The freshness and local color are wearing a bit thin here, as the Irish history of Barbary pirates, blackmail, feminist literary theory, and Torrey's gourmet-reporter boyfriend all find places in the plot. An Agatha-type denouement with the suspects in one room, complete with surprise revelations, ties it all up.
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Review
"The writing is pleasant and swift and the Irish color is beguiling." --Booklist
"[Deere's] skill at deploying red herrings and her penchant for romantic subplots assures that readers will be eager for more tales of murder in Ballynagh." -Publishers Weekly
"Grittier than most British cozies...will appeal to fans of Bartholomew Gill's Irish procedurals." -Booklist
