What are you reading the week of Sunday, November 9, 2014? [View all]
Sorry Enthusiast for jumping the gun, but I have been in a desert of non-fiction for the last couple of months. I couldn't take it any more and strolled over to my local library for a fix. I didn't have anything in mind and there it was on the new fiction, mystery shelf Scandal in Skibbereen by Sheila Connolly. I had no choice but to pick it up since I have been to Skippereen, Ireland. I guess it was titled this as apposed to Scandal in Leap since Skibbereen sounds so much more exotic.
This is the 2nd in the County Cork mysteries and I will have to read the rest. The story centers around Maura Donovan an American from South Boston who inherited a pub and house in County Cork. She has just began to settle in to the quiet rural life in Leap (pronounced Lep) and looking forward to summer with increased trade from tourists when a brassy New Yorker Althea Melville turns the local scene upside down.
As is typical with the Irish there are secrets that everyone knows but no one talks about. There is murder and a lost Van Dyck portrait.
It was a lot of fun but too fast of a read. I got it Thursday and finished yesterday morning.
I guess it's nose to the grindstone time again!
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