In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi’s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors, enjoy some brown bread and tea, and get the local gossip. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O’Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago.
It’s been a rough year for the O’Sullivans, but it’s about to get rougher. One morning, as they’re opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table, dressed in a suit as if for his own funeral, a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O’Sullivans and their business in danger of being shunned—murder tends to spoil the appetite—it’s up to feisty redheaded Siobhán to solve the crime and save her beloved brood.
“Kicks off a new series in splendid fashion! If you love cozy mysteries and traveling, then give Murder in an Irish Village a try. You’ll feel like you’ve stepped into Ireland as you turn the pages.”—Fresh Fiction
“A smart whodunnit in an idyllic locale. I dare you not to be charmed by sleuth Siobhán and her siblings, the O’Sullivan Six.”—Barbara Ross, author of A Maine Clambake Mystery Series
“A delightful, funny, fast-paced romp of a book.”—Isis Crawford, author of A Mystery with Recipes Series (Summary via Goodreads)
Murder in an Irish Village is the first book in the Irish Village Mystery series written by Carlene O'Connor and she sets the stage beautifully for this story and future stories that readers are going to want to read.
In Murder in an Irish Village Siobhan and her five siblings are still trying to deal with life after losing their parents in a car accident a year ago. Siobhan and her brother James are the oldest and have to look after and raise their younger brothers and sisters as well as run the family business, Naomi's Bistro. To add anything more to their plates would not be good so when Niall, the brother of the man responsible for the accident comes back to town saying the accident wasn't his brothers fault, Siobhan doesn't know what to think. Unfortunately she doesn't get to think on that for too long because the next day, she finds Niall sitting in the bistro with a pair of scissors in his chest.
It isn't long before Garda Flannery takes James in for questioning when it is learned that he and Niall got into a huge fight at the bar and unfortunately James, who was six months sober, was passed out behind the bar looking like he was in a bad fight.
Siobhan knows that she has to prove her brother's innocence and the only way to do that is to find the real killer. Even though Garda Flannery is on the case, she knows that she cannot sit and wait for results.....
Once readers start reading this story you feel like you are right there sitting in the bistro with a cuppa tea and a plate of brown bread and you are hanging with your friends. Even with a murder investigation going on, you will still want to be right there. You will love the shops, the people and even the drama. You cannot help but love the O'Sullivan Six and wish you were the seventh so that you belonged. And their commitment to each other is something else !!
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