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"Crime runs rampant in the ancient, picture-perfect town of Leixleap on Ireland's famed River Shannon. Thieves have been furtively harvesting the succulent, gourmet-prized and high-priced eels that flourish in the river. But while poaching may be a matter local lawmen can handle, murder is quite another thing. And when it occurs, a frantic call for help goes out to Dublin and Chief Inspector Peter McGarr.".
"The call has come from a source Peter doesn't much trust: Tim Tallon, a boyhood acquaintance who was once a tactless bully, but has grown up to become - on the surface, at least - a substantial citizen, thanks to his common-law liaison with a well-heeled Belgian woman. The two now own a luxury inn, joined to a lowbrow pub with hot-sheet accommodations for dirty weekenders and their lecherous like.
In one of its beds lies a nude couple, so intimately intertwined that one bullet seemingly killed them both." "She was Eel Policewoman Ellen Gilday: young, pretty, and recently married, but not to her partner in death. He was Pascal Burke, her boss, a divorced womanizer more than twice her age. It seems that their unsavory affair has been going on for months, both before and after her marriage to a highly regarded local lad, Quintan Finn.".
"But once again, nothing is clearcut. What seems to be an unraveling mystery is merely a wad of loose ends. There are unexplained oddities, like the seven-year-old girl prowling outside Tallon's inn with a beeper. The testimony of the maid who found the bodies is hopelessly skewed.
And more suspects keep turning up as McGarr finds that the victims might have enraged not only their spouses but also eel fishermen, both legitimate and otherwise, and environmentalists, who have long suspected the two were on the take."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Death of an Irish Lover
2008, HarperCollins
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The Death of an Irish Lover: A Peter McGarr Mystery (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
May 1, 2001, Avon
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The death of an Irish lover: an inspector Peter McGarr mystery
2000, Avon Books
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Piety and power in Ireland, 1760-1960: essays in honour of Emmet Larkin
2000, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, University of Notre Dame Press
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Piety and Power in Ireland, 1760-1960: Essays in Honour of Emmet Larkin
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The death of an Irish lover: a Peter McGarr mystery
2000, W. Morrow
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Crime runs rampant in the picturesque town of Leixleap — and onIreland's famed River Shannon, where brazen thieves illegally harvestthe gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. But while poachingmay be something the local Eel Police division is well-equippedto handle, murder is wholly another matter.Chief Inspector Peter McGarr has been called out from Dublin to investigate a troubling double homicide. The nude body of young, pretty, and,recently married Eel Policewoman Ellen Gilday Finn has been discoveredin the bed of a hot-sheet inn — wrapped around the equally unclothedcorpse of her much older boss, Pascal Burke. A crime of passion, perhaps, pointing to Ellen's cuckolded newly wedded husband as the perpetrator. But conflicting clues and false confessions are leading McGarrinto dangerous hidden corners where greed, corruption, IRA terror andradical, possibly deadly, environmentalism are but a few of the, dark blooms secretly nourished in the rich loam of the Irish countryside.
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