While investigating the drowning death of a former lover, who ran a fly-fishing school in a tiny village, Peter McGarr finds numerous suspicious anglers. By the author of The Death of Love. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
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In his 10th appearance, Dublin police Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr attends the funeral of former lover and expert fisherwoman, 54-year-old Nellie Millar, who drowned one night while casting for salmon in Donegal's River Owenea. Although he has moved on to a young wife and daughter and a career full of ups and downs (he's currently under suspension), old loyalties goad McGarr to investigate when he finds a sharp cut near the back of the waist of Nellie's waders. He meets her most recent lover, a young American with a wide smile and family in tow, and learns that Nellie's purist ways angered local poachers trying to make a living off the river. He also comes across a sultry Scottish woman who's keen on sex and fishing, looks uncannily like Nellie, ties off a fly like a master and has bedded the available men in the village. Having detailed the somber emotional underpinnings of McGarr in previous books, including Edgar-nominated The Death of a Joyce Scholar , Gill, in this well-turned plot, highlights the rugged vibrancy and anachronisms of Ireland and its citizens without ever succumbing to cliched Emerald Isle sentimentality.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Gill adds an exciting, articulate, and satisfying adventure to his Peter McGarr series, focusing on the suspicious death of Peter's former love, famous sportfisher and writer Nellie Millar. Temporarily suspended from the Irish police, McGarr conducts an unofficial investigation into the woman's drowning, making use of his wife's counsel, as usual, and the undercover services of former cop Ruthie. Because of his personal interest in the case, McGarr barrels forward with his enquiries. Suspects include Nellie's runaround young lover, a beautiful Scottish business protegee, and a disgruntled fish poacher. An excellent choice, told with wit, evocative description, and subtle plotting.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Of shielings, shebeens, and Finn MacCool's salmon.,
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This review is from: Death on a Cold, Wild River: A Peter McGarr Mystery (Paperback)
Gill's novels are always fun because they revolve around aspects of Irish life not usually incorporated into mystery stories--eel-fishing, secret Catholic societies, literary history, and in this case, the serious business of salmon-fishing and fly-tying. Well drawn, repeating characters, lyrical descriptions of Ireland's rural charms, pitch-perfect vernacular and syntax, big dollops of humor, and a graceful incorporation of the mythology and history which infuses Irish culture intrigue the reader on levels other than plot.This novel reflects all of these characteristics to some degree, but the mystery at the heart of this novel is thinner and less complex than in some of Gill's other novels. Focusing on the death of famed salmon-fisherman Nellie Millar in Donegal's Owenea River, Gill employs a limited cast of characters, each of whom has a reason to resent and or even kill Nellie, who is a former lover of Supt. Peter McGarr of the Garda Siochana. McGarr (now suspended) and his wife Noreen, along with acting Supt. Hugh Ward and his former lover, Det. Ruthie Bresnahan, find themselves helping unofficially in the investigation of Nellie's death and lending moral support to Nellie's bereft father. The usually intense and idiosyncratic behavior of McGarr and his staff, which so often animates Gill's novels and keeps the reader involved and intrigued, is absent here. The wild nights and fights, the circumventions of the law to achieve a greater good, and the threats to the safety of McGarr, his staff, and their families, which usually keep the reader on edge, are missing. Though written in beautiful prose, this plot is more formulaic--and the characters' more predictable--than is customary for Gill. It's fun to read, but not Gill's best. Mary Whipple
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Faith and Begorra!,
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I am an Irish-American so anything Irish attracts me. I read this early Peter McGarr mystery of Bartholomew Gill's and immediately bought more.....sadly I have read them all now. They are all funny, quirky with fascinating characters whose stories evolve as the books unfold so we can follow their lives. Start with the first and read them through chronologically for the full effect! You wont be sorry!
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