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Synopsis:
April in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a U.S. law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is taking place. The town is abuzz with excitement, but it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. The rain doesn’t stop—it becomes relentless, torrential.
In the middle of the night, Police Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto a passing vehicle. It is identified as Bob Jameson, a well-known charities boss and the organizer of the cycling event. Stunned, the local doctor finds evidence of a recent snakebite. Terrible weather persists and soon bridges are down and roads are impassable. Glendara is completely cut off and since there are no native snakes in Ireland, could there be a killer trapped in the community? With no help from the outside world, it’s left to Molloy—with Ben’s assistance—to find out who is responsible for Bob Jameson’s bizarre death.
Perfect for fans of Louise Penny, Lisa Gardner—and, of course, Agatha Christie
Review:
At the last novel (book 4, Murder at Greysbridge). Ben and Molloy were at odds, and you weren't sure what would happen. Carter solved the issue by sending Ben to Florida for a cooling off period, where each could reasses what they meant to another. But Ben misses Scotland as much as she does Molloy, so she is ready to come back home. What she isn't ready for is the chaos that the temp attorney has left in her office, or the chaos that the bike run has brought to sleepy Glendara! As the body count rises, she finds herself at odds with the weather and the town, fighting to determine who the real killer is, before the floods overtake downtown. A great way to bring fresh nuances into the series, this book is a bit roller coaster, and will have you a bitshocked at the ending, but in a good way!
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. Following that, she moved to Dublin to practice as a barrister before turning to write crime novels. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin.
The Body Falls is the fifth in the Inishowen Mystery Series. Carter’s first book, Death at Whitewater Church, a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, was followed by Treacherous Strand, The Well of Ice, and Murder at Greysbridge. She has been the recipient of two Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Awards and a Dublin City Council Bursary Award. The series is being adapted for a television crime series to be titled “Donegal—The Inishowen Mysteries” (woo hoo!). Andrea Carter lives in Dublin with her husband, documentary maker Geoff Power.
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