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You’d Be Lucky to Have Your Body Found

The Vanishing Triangle by Claire McGowan

May 2, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

In the 1990s, eight women vanished from the same area in Ireland. Their cases are officially unsolved, their bodies mostly undiscovered, their stories untold. The trouble with true crime is that, with so many ongoing cases, it is easy to overlook individual ones, especially when the trail has grown cold. In this book, the author strives to correct this by telling us the tales of these women and many others who were abducted and murdered in Ireland during this time. I found the writing engaging […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ARC, Claire McGowan, Ireland, NetGalley, true crime

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:62 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ARC, Claire McGowan, Ireland, NetGalley, true crime ·
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I love sassy Irish lasses

Roots by Tara O'Connor

February 4, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Roots deals with the interesting concept of well, Roots: the roots that are our family’s history, finding our place to finally set them down, and dying our hair. This graphic novel is a sweet peek at Tara O’Connor after her divorce. Which of course, was not sweet, but even in the more somber moments, there is always a glimmer of hope. As the reader I had the feeling of reading her diary as Tara takes us through the journey of lost love and trying to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: family, Genealogy, Heritage, Ireland, Tara O’Connor.

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:48 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: family, Genealogy, Heritage, Ireland, Tara O’Connor. ·
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Soothe Yourself

Dubliners by James Joyce

December 9, 2021 by Singsonggirl Leave a Comment

I’ve always liked Dubliners unironically, even after I was informed that it apparently is something people hated to read in school (maybe that was just my friends, please enlighten me on this). A separate print of The Dead was one of the first books I got from the adult section at my local library, when I was still very much a child and I remember being blown away by the beauty of it. Two or three years ago I finally read the whole book and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andrew scott, audio book, good for your soul, Ireland, James Joyce

Singsonggirl's CBR13 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andrew scott, audio book, good for your soul, Ireland, James Joyce ·
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The Nothing Man: A worthy entry into the emerging meta-true crime genre

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

October 23, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

This was a really fun book!!! Earlier in the year, I read Every Last Fear which follows the story of a young man whose family was killed and whose story became a true crime phenomenon. The Nothing Man falls into the same category of meta-true crime fiction, and it highlights the importance of the victims who are often left out of the narrative.  The story of The Nothing Man takes place in county Cork in Ireland, and is told from two perspectives. One is from […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: author, Catherine Ryan Howard, Ireland, meta true crime, police procedure, serial killer, true crime

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: author, Catherine Ryan Howard, Ireland, meta true crime, police procedure, serial killer, true crime ·
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Cover of Tana French's The Searcher

“The wind blows itself out, and dawn comes to the window cold and still in a clear gold-green.”

The Searcher by Tana French

August 10, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I waited to pick up a Tana French novel even though she is highly regarded around these parts. Late last year I commented on narfna’s review that I was hesitant to pick up another author who writes an ongoing series (I’ve got the Inspector Gamache books to contend with) and that’s true enough. But I think another component was that I knew French wrote gritty, hard-boiled crime novels and I just wasn’t in the mood for those, no matter the quality of the writing (the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Western Tagged With: cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, Ireland, landscape, mystery, Tana French, The Searcher, Western Inspired

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Western · Tags: cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, Ireland, landscape, mystery, Tana French, The Searcher, Western Inspired ·
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Cover of Tana French's The Searcher

I want to go to the Irish countryside now, but ONLY to visit

The Searcher by Tana French

August 6, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 4 Comments

BINGO – REC’D I enjoyed author Tana French’s novel In the Woods and then msvreadsbooks’ review sold me on picking up another French novel The Searcher. Cal Hooper is a retired detective from Chicago who recently bought and moved into a run-down house in a small rural Irish town. He’s determined to keep his head low, not make any enemies of the locals, and enjoy some peace and quiet away from it all. What a boring book that would have been if that’s all that happened. Soon after […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr13bingo, countryside, Ireland, Tana French

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:45 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr13bingo, countryside, Ireland, Tana French ·
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