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    Gruesome Discovery, A: A mystery set in 1920s Ireland

    By Cora Harrison

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    The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery.

    Ireland. 1925.

    Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. But nothing like this. On opening the evil-smelling trunk, labelled ‘old books’, the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover it contains the dead body of one of Cork’s richest merchants, wrapped in decomposing animal hides.

    Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins merchant: his rebellious, republican son; his frustrated, clever daughter; his neighbours; his business rivals; and those whose unbaptised babies were buried on the site of his new tanning yard. But when suspicion falls on a former lay sister from her convent, the Reverend Mother decides she must help find the real killer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781780109367
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    Gruesome Discovery, A: A mystery set in 1920s Ireland
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    Cora Harrison

    Cora Harrison worked as a headteacher before she decided to write her first novel. She has since published twenty-six children’s novels. My Lady Judge was her first book in a Celtic historical crime series for adults that introduces Mara, Brehon of the Burren. Cora lives on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland.

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      1925, Cork Ireland... Mother Superior receives a trunk from the Local Auctioneer labeled "Old School Books". As she is about to open it a young man rushes in to claim the trunk saying: "I think that may be my trunk, Reverend Mother" (expecting a cache of guns)... When the unlocked trunk pops open, they find the corpse of the young man's father, clearly not what either of them expected. The young man then pulls out a revolver & fires emptying all the bullets into his father's corpse.The young man had wanted to go to the university & study mathematics, when his father refused to pay for a university education, the young man instead joined the "Republicans".His father was a very wealthy "self-made" man, a tanner & purveyor of goods to the government during the war. His father has left behind 12 children (10 boys & twin girls), a wife, a new house that they were all about to move into, the two connected old houses, & a vast fortune which seems to have disappeared.Oddly the father had signed a will the morning he was murdered, leaving everything to his wife, but in the control of his rival & a shady lawyer....With the help of the skin merchant's daughter, a determined young republican woman, the local doctor, & a young police; Mother Superior, a young detective inspector, and the local doctor are able to solve the crime, but not before two more people are murdered.The story was interesting, there was no lack of suspects, the Red Herrings were obvious, and there were two huge loose ends that made me knock off 1/2 star.