BOOK #5

Start with An Irish Bookshop Murder. Mercy McCarthy is delighted to see old neighbors and new friends come to the bookstore to support her sister's autumn book club. But as Mercy closes the chapter on the evening, she stumbles across local grandmother Eva, slumped in a squashy armchair at the back of the store. She recognizes Eva as one of the festival's main organizers and though she looks to be at peace, the plot thickens when Mercy notices a suspicious mark on her neck. She knows this was no accident. With so many people in the store that night, any one of them could be the killer. Just as Mercy reads a suspicious-sounding entry for the festival's fiction-writing contest, another body turns up on the beach. Is someone in Shamrock Cove dying for a bestseller?