Death of an Irish Mummy

by Catie Murphy

Overview

Squiring a self-proclaimed heiress around Dublin has got limo driver Megan Malone’s Irish up—until she finds the woman dead ...

American-born Cherise Williams believes herself to be heir to an old Irish earldom, and she’s come to Dublin to claim her heritage. Under the circumstances, Megan’s boss Orla at Leprechaun Limos has no qualms about overcharging the brash Texas transplant for their services. Megan chauffeurs Cherise to the ancient St. Michan’s Church, where the woman intends to get a wee little DNA sample from the mummified earls—much to the horror of the priest.

But before she can desecrate the dead, Cherise Williams is murdered—just as her three daughters arrive to also claim their birthright. With rumors of famine-era treasure on the lands owned by the old Williams family and the promise of riches for the heirs, greed seems a likely motive. But when Orla surprisingly becomes the Garda’s prime suspect, Megan attempts to steer the investigation away from her boss and solve the murder with the help of the dashing Detective Bourke. With a killer who’s not wrapped too tight, she’ll need to proceed with caution—or she could go from driving a limo to riding in a hearse...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496724229
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Series:	The Dublin Driver Mysteries , #3
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	142,208
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Catie Murphy, who has written numerous award-winning Fantasy and Sci Fi books under the pseudonym C. E. Murphy, began writing around age six, when she submitted three poems to a school publication. The teacher producing the magazine selected (inevitably) the one she thought was by far the worst, but also told her—a six-year-old kid—to keep writing, which she has. She has also held the usual grab bag of jobs often seen in an authorial biography, including public library volunteer (at ages 9 and 10; it's clear she was doomed to a career involving books), archival assistant, cannery worker, and web designer. Writing books is better. She was born and raised in Alaska, and now lives with her family in her ancestral homeland of Ireland. Visit her at Mizkit.com.

Editorial Reviews

2021-03-31
Texas-born Dublin limo driver Megan Malone must cope with the decease of an Irish mummy of quite a different sort than the title seems to promise.

Brash American Cherise Williams, convinced that she and her daughters are the rightful heirs to the Earldom of Leitrim, wants nothing more than to extract a DNA sample, or maybe a finger bone, from one of the bodies that rest in St. Michan’s Church to prove her case. Luckily for the dead, Cherise’s attempts to disturb their slumber end when she herself joins them, courtesy of an injection of air that brings on a fatal heart attack. Her daughter Raquel, who finds her mother dead as she enters their hotel room, is totally freaked out, and buttoned-down Sondra and hippie-dippy Jessie, the sisters who shortly join them, are equally distraught in their own ways. Megan’s boss, Orla Keegan, convinced that Megan is cursed after finding “the third body she’d come across in eight months,” immediately fires her, but Raquel’s tears and Detective Superintendent Paul Bourke’s suspicion that Orla herself may be involved in the death soon make Orla realize that she needs Megan even more than Megan needs her. Ignoring the rule that “a chauffeur’s job is to be invisible,” Megan escorts the Williams daughters to Lough Rynn House on the Leitrim estate, where, shortly after the current landholder, Anne Edgeworth, gives them permission to bury their mother in the graveyard, they find her preceded by still another newcomer.

A mild mystery seasoned with puppy love, game humor, and occasional shafts of more pointed wit.

Kirkus Reviews