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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.
GraceAnne DeCandidoCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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The last thing American translator Torrey Tunet expects when she returns home to Ballynaugh late one night is to find a young girl at the bus stop, lost and alone in the dark. But that's nothing compared to what she finds when she escorts the girl to her final destination-cold-blooded mur-der. Historian John Gwathney has been stabbed to death in his own home and the immediate suspect is his housekeeper Megan O'Faolain. Certain that Megan did not commit this brutal crime, Torrey vows to track down the real killer herself. As Torrey digs deeper and deeper into Gwathney's re-search, it becomes clear that she's on to something. But will she solve this puzzling mystery fast enough to protect herself from a killer who doesn't want his identity revealed?
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