Book Review: Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter

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Here's a cold case mystery, perfect for fans of 

Louise Penny, P. D. James, and Donna Leon!

Synopsis:

A modern-day Agatha Christie with Ben O’Keeffe as Miss Marple.

 A skeleton is discovered in the crypt of a deconsecrated church along a remote coastline in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is convinced the  bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years ago. 

But the postmortem reveals otherwise.

Solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church, and although an unwelcome face from her past makes her reluctant to get involved, when Conor’s brother dies in strange circumstances shortly after coming to see her, she finds herself drawn in to the mystery. Whose is the skeleton in the crypt and how did it get there? Is Conor Devitt still alive, and if so, is there a link? What happened on the morning of his wedding to make him disappear?

Negotiating between the official investigation—headed up by the handsome but surly Sergeant Tom Molloy—and obstructive locals with secrets of their own, Ben unravels layers of personal and political history to get to the truth of what happened six years before.

Review:

This book is set to be the first in a series of Ben O’Keeffe mysteries set on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, and I'll be quite happy to keep reading the series! The story is very muc like a Christie novel- too many twists and turns and what appear to be sound leads, that turn out to be red herrings. I read this book in 2 sittings, only because I was too tired, otherwise it would have been 1, as it is that much of a page turner! If you're looking a new take on a traditional British procedural, this is the book you're looking for!

About the Author:

Andrea Carter grew up in the midlands of Ireland, studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, and worked as a solicitor on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, where she ran the most northerly solicitor's practice in the country. She then moved to Dublin where she practiced as a barrister before turning to write crime novels. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University College, Dublin.

This, her debut book, was a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, and she has been the recipient of two Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Awards and a Dublin City Council Bursary. Andrea lives in Dublin with her husband, documentary maker Geoff Power.