The Irish Cairn Murder: A Torrey Tunet Mystery

About this book

Murder-Irish Style... It is mid-October and unexpectedly cold in Ballynagh the small Irish village that Torrey Tunet the young American translator and sometime amateur sleuth calls home. She has just built a fire of peat and coal to warm her cottage when a window frame collapses letting in drafts of icy air. Asking around for the services of a carpenter she hires local teenager Dakin Cameron to do a few repairs. Dakin is an unusually helpful and likable young man with something on his mind. When he receives a threatening phone call at the cottage Torrey resolves to try to help him. It seems that Dakin is the son of Natalie Sylvester Cameron a beautiful heiress whose husband died tragically two years before. Dakin is distressed because someone is trying to blackmail Natalie-and even more distressed when the blackmail attempts lead to a case of murder. Determined to uncover the truth no matter what the cost-including the ongoing enmity of the local police inspector-Torrey Tunet must call upon all of her wits and courage to find a cunning killer at large...