A Shocking Assassination
by Cora Harrison

“Well-drawn characters, including a lead capable of sustaining a long series, complement the clever plot”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Ireland. 1924. Reverend Mother Aquinas is buying buttered eggs in the Cork city market at the very moment when the city engineer, James Doyle, is assassinated. Although no one saw the actual killing, a young reporter named Sam O’Mahoney is found standing close to the body, a pistol in his hand, and is arrested and charged.

Following a desperate appeal from Sam’s mother, convinced of her son’s innocence, the Reverend Mother investigates – and, in this turbulent, war-torn city, uncovers several other key suspects. Could there be a Republican connection? Was James Doyle’s death linked to his corrupt practices in the rebuilding of the city, burned down more than a year ago by the Black and Tans? Cork is a city divided by wealth and by politics: this murder seems to have links to both.

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Period ambience, an absorbing plot, and a wise and intrepid amateur sleuth in the form of the Reverend Mother make this an engaging historical mystery.

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Well-drawn characters, including a lead capable of sustaining a long series, complement the clever plot

Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Cora Harrison

Cora Harrison turned to writing historical fiction after she retired from teaching to live on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland. As well as the Reverend Mother series, she is the author of the ‘Mara’ series of Celtic mysteries, set in sixteenth-century Ireland, and the new Gaslight mystery series set in Victorian London.www.coraharrison.com

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A Shocking Assassination by Cora Harrison is available in the following formats

Hardback978072788596831st May 2016146 X 222mm256£21.99
Ebook97817801078821st September 2016N/A256$14.99
Ebook97817801078821st September 2016N/A256£4.99
Hardback - Large Print978072789536331st March 2017143 X 224mm384£23.99
Paperback978184751727228th April 2017139 X 216mm256£13.99
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