Peter McGarr mysteries
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McGarr and the politician's wife: a mystery novel , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 1
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McGarr and the Sienese conspiracy , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 2
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McGarr on the Cliffs of Moher , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 3
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McGarr at the Dublin horse show , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 4
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McGarr and the P. M. of Belgrave Square , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 5
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McGarr and the method of Descartes , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 6
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McGarr and the legacy of a woman scorned , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 7
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Peter McGarr mysteries volume 8
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Trinity professor and Joycean scholar Kevin Coyle was one of Dublin's most colorful -- and controversial -- characters, until someone stabbed him through the heart on Bloomsday, the annual citywide celebration honoring Ireland's most beloved literary light. The poetic irony is not lost on Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr: one of the foremost experts on the works of James Joyce was slain on the so-called "Murderers' Ground" made famous in the author's...
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Peter McGarr mysteries volume 9
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A first-time father at fifty-one, Irish police chief Peter McGarr takes his infant daughter and feisty wife to a country resort, where he is commissioned to investigate the murder of a high-powered banker.
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Death on a cold, wild river , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 10
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The death of an ardent bibliophile , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 11
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Death of an Irish sea wolf , Peter McGarr mysteries volume 12
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Peter McGarr mysteries volume 13
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A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a "Tinker," one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of Desmond Bacon, "the Toddler," brutal king of Ireland's heroin trade. But who was the deceased and why was he killed? The answer lies with a Tinker woman named Biddy Nevins, who may be the only person able...
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Peter McGarr mysteries volume 14
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Crime runs rampant in the picturesque town of Leixleap -- and on Ireland's famed River Shannon, where brazen thieves illegally harvest the gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. But while poaching may be something the local Eel Police division is well-equipped to handle, murder is wholly another matter.
Chief Inspector Peter McGarr has been called out from Dublin to investigate a troubling double homicide. The nude body of young, pretty, and,...
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Peter McGarr mysteries volume 15
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Local benefactress and celebrated biographer Mary-Jo Stanton is a supplicant to death -- left lifeless on her knees in a patch of daffodils, a barbaric religious implement wrapped tightly around her neck. A clergyman has approached Peter McGarr, requesting that the Chief Superintendent quietly investigate this outrage that occurred at Barbastro, the slain grand lady's compoundlike Dublin estate. Murder is McGarr's business, but this one might be his...
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Peter McGarr mysteries volume 16
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The theft of the Book of Kells an exquisite ninth-century amalgam of Christian doctrine and Celtic legend from the Trinity College library is, in itself, a most shocking crime. But it is the brutal slaying of a night watchman that throws Peter McGarr of the Dublin Murder Squad into the mix. Forced to share investigative duties equally with a publicity-hungry co-Chief Superintendent, McGarr is soon entangled in a twisted web of murder, thievery, backbiting...