Bookshelf: Molly’s back for
more mystery
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Danny Boy is a Molly Murphy mystery featuring Irish immigrant Molly Murphy.
Agatha Award-winning author Rhys Bowen brings turn-of-the-century New
York City to life as Molly — desperately trying to make ends meet
as a private investigator — tries to free her ex-love-interest from
felonious charges.
Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less
complicated, less exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently
thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain
Daniel Sullivan whom she’d like to avoid completely.
But when Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands in the Tombs,
the notorious city jail, he begs Molly to help prove he was framed and
after everything they’ve been through she cannot turn him down.
As she finds herself drawn further and further into the case she begins
to fear that Daniel’s trouble is related to one of his investigations
— catching the East Side Ripper serial killer who is targeting prostitutes.
Oh Danny Boy marks Edgar Award-finalist Rhys Bowen’s triumphant
fifth instalment in the award-winning Molly Murphy mystery series.
Bowen’s wonderful characters — the unstoppable Molly, the
Bohemian Sid and Gus, the earnest Jacob Singer — reflect the different
ethnicities and social whirlpool of New York City in the early 1900s.
Rhys Bowen’s novels have garnered an impressive array of awards
and nominations including the Anthony Award for For The Love Of Mike and
the Agatha Award for Murphy’s Law — the first Molly Murphy
mystery.
Her books have also won the Bruce Alexander Historical Award and the Herodotus
Award and have been shortlisted for the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award
and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Rhys Bowen is also the author of the acclaimed Evan Evans mystery series.
Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen is published by St. Martin’s Minotaur.
Leland Bardwell , The House
“What I am to this house and this house is to me is the only important
thing left while my father dies obtrusively in the drawing room.”
Cedric Stewart returns to the family home near Killiney in County Dublin
to visit his dying father. Estranged from the house and his ‘stiff
Protestant’ parents through war, divorce and ideology he finds renewed
solace in Theresa — the Catholic housekeeper whom he has loved since
he first knew the meaning of love.
A timeless story of class, love, religion and self-discovery the beautifully-crafted
language of this acclaimed novel resonates as warmly today as it did on
first publication, reaffirming Leland Bardwell’s place among the
great Irish writers.
Leland Bardwell has published five novels — Girl on a Bicycle, That
London Winter, The House, There We Have Been and Mother To A Stranger
— and one short story collection — Different Kinds Of Love.
She has also published collections of poetry, stage plays and radio
plays.
C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski, The Faber Companion To Samuel
Beckett
he faber Companion is the most comprehensive reference to the ideas,
characters and life of Samuel Beckett. Alphabetically-ordered and cross-referenced
it provides a wealth of information for all serious readers of Beckett.
According to one critic Ruby Cohn: “Ackerley and Gontarski have
amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his
works. The Faber Companion will prove useful to everyone — from
the neophyte who seeks other work by Beckett to the seasoned Beckett scholar
who is not necessarily an expert on the writer’s use of astrology
or zoology. In short, from A to Z, all readers of Beckett will be enriched.”
It’s been published to coincide with the centenary of his birth
when there are events and widespread feature coverage throughout 2006.
A season of his work will be staged at London’s Barbican and Dublin’s
Gate Theatre.
Faber has published a stylish repackage of his plays including Happy
Days, All That Fall and Endgame. And for the very first time a bi-lingual
edition of Waiting For Godot/En Attendant Godot which Faber will publish
on September 7 this year.
Jo Brand, It’s Different For Girls
Hastings in the ’70s is not the coolest place to be. Teetering
on the brink of adolescence, Rachel and Susan realise the best chance
of surviving their teens is to stick together. Their friendship protects
them against the various trials of parents, classmates, randy language
students, stoned hippies, all-night parties on the pier and an amusement
arcade of emotional neediness and weediness.
But then Dave, sophisticated London art student and unattainable boyfriend,
enters their lives and they discover that sex, drugs and punk rock aren’t
always everything they’ve dreamed of.
Torey Hayden , Ghost Girl
Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking
hour locked in her own private world of shadows.
Nothing in Torey Hayden’s experience had prepared her for the nightmare
Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed
silence. It was a story too painful and too horrific for Hayden’s
professional colleagues to acknowledge. But Torey Hayden could not close
her ears... or her heart.
A little girl was trapped in a living hell of unspeakable memories. And
it would take every ounce of courage, compassion and love that one remarkable
teacher possessed to rid the Ghost Girl of the malevolent spirits that
haunted her.
Torey Hayden is an educational psychologist and a special-education teacher
who since 1979 has chronicled her struggles in the classroom in a succession
of bestselling books.
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