By: Lucy Connelly
Many thanks to Bookouture for the ARC of this book and the stop on the book tour!
About the Book
rish scones, shamrock shortbread, a local literary festival… and a rather dead author? Join Mercy McCarthy on her next case!
Mercy and Lizzie McCarthy are settling in to the charming seaside village of Shamrock Cove on the west coast of Ireland. Lizzie throws herself into organizing a book festival and mystery writer Mercy even agrees to come out of her bookish hidey-hole to get involved. But then the event’s star author is found dead. James Brandt was killed by a falling bookshelf in his own cottage…
The local detective is not convinced by Mercy’s suspicion of murder but when someone else turns up dead, the police cannot ignore it. There’s just one problem: Mercy and Lizzie’s beloved dog Mr. Poe sniffs out the second body in the storeroom of their own bookstore. And now all the gossips seem determined to pin the murder on Mercy!
Convinced the police are focusing on a red herring in this real-life case, Mercy needs to act fast to clear her name. A meddling mayor, a cheerful chef and a bashful botanist make her suspect list, but it’s not until Mercy discovers a tatty old photograph in the local library archive that she is onto the killer’s trail.
With the police keen to shut her out of the murder investigation, can Mercy play this case by the book, or will she be the next to fall off the shelf…?
My Review
I absolutely love this cozy series. I read this over the weekend when it was cold and rainy – the perfect way to read a cozy mystery. Mercy is such a great character. She’s a writer and super funny. She uses her sleuthing skills, which she covers by using the excuse that she’s researching for a book, in order to help Kieran help solve the murders! The full cast of characters is back from the first book, and I fell in love with all of them even more!
I love how the mystery branched out here, and the background information that we got on the suspects. Everything tied together so well. It really get the mystery whodunnit going throughout the whole entire book. Even though they had a few suspects in the book, I had no idea which of the suspects was really behind all the happenings and why! I love that Mr. Poe (the dog) is so helpful and protective. I just want to give him all the hugs and love. I can’t wait for another mystery in Shamrock Cove, to be surrounded by these characters, in another cozy setting, with Mercy being Mercy, and figuring out another whodunnit!
This book is out on November 12, 2024. Get your copy here!
About the Author
Bestselling author Candace Havens has published more than 25 books. Her novels have received nominations for the RITA’s, Holt Medallion, Write Touch Reader Awards and National Reader’s Choice Awards. She is a Barbara Wilson Award winner. She is the author of the biography Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy and a contributor to several anthologies. She is also one of the nation’s leading entertainment journalists and has interviewed countless celebrities from George Clooney to Chris Pratt. Candace runs a free online writing workshop for more than 2000 writers and teaches comprehensive writing classes. She does film reviews with Hawkeye in the Morning on 96.3 KSCS, and is a former President of the Television Critics Association.
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