The Irish Cairn Murder: A Torrey Tunet Mystery [Hardcover]

Dicey Deere (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 3, 2002

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.

At times like these, Torrey gets what her friend Winifred calls a "dragon-slaying look" in her eyes. 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 solve the latest Ballynagh mystery.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Torrey Tunet, the American translator (and accidental sleuth) holed up in the Irish town of Ballynaugh, has more trouble on her hands when wealthy widow and affordable housing advocate Natalie Sylvester Cameron ("A darling. High heels. Spotless reputation") finds herself being blackmailed. The Irish Cairn Murder: A Torrey Tunet Mystery, Dicey Deere's follow-up to The Irish Manor House Murder, shows off some intricate plotting and a cast of eccentrics, including Jasper, Tunet's overweight gourmand boyfriend, and her rival, the inept and vengeful Inspector O'Hare.
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From Booklist

Torrey Tunet lives in a cottage by Ballynagh when she isn't traipsing across Europe to ply her trade as an interpreter. The expat American has an Irish journalist boyfriend named Jasper, who's a bit overweight but a great cook. After Torrey is rescued from a couple of teen louts by a local boy named Dakin, she is surprised when Dakin turns up again as the carpenter who fixes her cottage window frame. Dakin and his mother, it turns out, have been receiving phone calls and letters threatening to reveal a secret that neither of them knows. A stranger comes to town, then another; the first is murdered, and the second attacked. As a tale of repression, revenge, amnesia, and sexual mores unfolds, Torrey and Jasper snoop, search, and eventually orchestrate the classic Christie-type denouement wherein all the players gather in a room and the final truths are revealed. The writing is pleasant and swift; some of the plot lines stretch credulity a wee bit, but the quaint Irish color is beguiling. GraceAnne DeCandido
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Minotaur Books; 1st edition (May 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312275196
• ISBN-13: 978-0312275198
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,416,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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