Murder at an Irish Christmas

Garda Siobhán O’Sullivan’s vacation plans hit a bitter observe when homicide rearranges the yuletide carols into surprising eulogies . . .
 
This December in Kilbane, if you happen to’re planning to heat up with a cuppa tea at Naomi’s Bistro, you’ll have a little bit of a wait—the complete O’Sullivan brood has gone off to West Cork to spend the vacations with brother James’s fiancée Elise’s household, together with her grandfather, the well-known orchestral conductor Enda Elliot. Siobhán is so completely satisfied for James and Elise but in addition quietly disillusioned that she should put her personal wedding ceremony to fellow garda Macdara Flannery on maintain. Mac should be a part of them later, so he can spend a part of the vacations along with his mam.
 
When the O’Sullivans be taught everybody will select a reputation from a hat to purchase a music-related Christmas present for another person at the gathering, it looks as if their best concern—till the cantankerous conductor is found crushed underneath a ninety-pound harp in an area live performance corridor.With the prolonged household—together with Enda’s much-younger new spouse Leah, a virtuoso violinist—suspected in his homicide, it is as much as Siobhán to make sure the responsible occasion faces the music earlier than the killer orchestrates one other premature demise . . .
 
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