Death on Clare Island: A Star O'Brien Mystery

Death on Clare Island: A Star O'Brien Mystery

by Martha Geaney
Death on Clare Island: A Star O'Brien Mystery

Death on Clare Island: A Star O'Brien Mystery

by Martha Geaney

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Overview

Enjoy this female amateur sleuth mystery series with American Star O'Brien solving crimes in the West of Ireland...

American information broker Star O'Brien has journeyed to ruggedly beautiful Clare Island, in County Mayo, Ireland, for two reasons. One is to settle the estate of her recently deceased lover. The other is to tackle the mystery of her own existence. As owner of the Consulting Detective, Star's accustomed to spending long hours scouring through public records and obscure databases to research mundane, un-dangerous things like divorce, adoption, and missing heirs. She's not accustomed to dealing with freshly dead bodies.

The police say it's a closed case. A young drug addict wandered too close to Clare Island's famously treacherous cliffs. But Star doesn't believe the stories she's hearing about the young man, just as she didn't believe it when the police dismissed her mother's disappearance as "abandonment" when Star was only six years old.

Star puts her investigation skills to work, trying to separate truth from fiction in the testimonies of those close to the victim. Who is telling the truth and who is lying to her? The head of an anti-drug foundation? A volatile ex-lover or a besotted young art student? The restorer of the island's ruins? Then another body turns up. Can the fiercely independent Star face up to her own past, while racing to uncover the killer before she becomes the next victim?

Product Details

BN ID: 2940161415900
Publisher: Turlough, Nolan Publishing
Publication date: 02/02/2019
Series: Star O'Brien Mystery Series , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 705,335
File size: 463 KB

About the Author

MARTHA M. GEANEY is the author of the highly praised non-fiction, women’s leadership book, Bring Your Spirit to Work: One Woman at a Time. She is also the author of the Star O’Brien fiction series which is set in the west of Ireland, and the United States. Martha was born in New York City but lived in New Jersey beginning at the age of eight. In 2017, Martha and her partner, Bill, moved to Florida where she enjoys cooking, reading, swimming, and her Schipperke puppy, Turlough.

Before turning to indie writing, Martha was a teacher, management consultant, university professor, and the dean of a business college. It was her leadership experience as a management consultant and her research for her doctorate that prompted Martha to write a self-help book for women who aspire to leadership roles.

Martha’s passion for Ireland began when she made her first trip, at the age of four, to County Mayo, birthplace of her mother, and to County Cork, birthplace of her father. She returned to Ireland again at the age of sixteen to attend a boarding school in Castlebar, County Mayo, for two years. Since then, Martha has visited her cousins and friends in Ireland for more than thirty-five years. It is her love for the people, the country, and all its beauty that inspired her to create a mystery and suspense series, set in Ireland, about an amateur detective, Star O’Brien, who is an American.

She is currently working on her second Star O’Brien novel.
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