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The Luck of the Irish

Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

June 25, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Retired detective Tom Kettle sits in his wicker chair in front of the window of his seaside apartment in a small, nameless Irish village. He watches the cormorants, he looks at the boxes of books he still hasn’t put up, and he thinks about cleaning his oven and about his deceased wife June, his long-lost children. One day, two detectives show up at his door to ask about a cold case: a priest, stabbed and thrown off a cliff a decade or so earlier. New […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: Catholicism, Ireland, Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: Catholicism, Ireland, Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry ·
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Chilling.

Snow by John Banville

May 13, 2024 by Zirza 2 Comments

It’s impossible for me to review this novel without providing SPOILERS, so read at your own peril.  Rural Ireland, 1957. Detective St. John Strafford (with an R) has been summoned to a country estate in the south-east of Ireland, where a Catholic priest has been found dead in the house of a Protestant land owner. The real kicker: the priest has been castrated. It’s December and the countryside is cloaked in a thick blanket of snow that chokes out sound and hides evidence. Under the […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery Tagged With: Catholic church, Ireland, john banville, snow, Spoilers, Trigger Warning

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:26 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: Catholic church, Ireland, john banville, snow, Spoilers, Trigger Warning ·
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A promising debut novel

The Write Escape by Charish Reid

March 29, 2024 by Malin 2 Comments

3.5 stars Nowhere Book Bingo: A book with a BIPOC author and main character CBR16 Sweet Books: Cozy In very short order, Antonia Harper has lost her job and discovered that her fiancée was cheating on her, very shortly before the wedding. The honeymoon was supposed to be in Ireland, and Antonia decides to travel there by herself. Her spiteful ex has cancelled their original reservations, but she rents a cottage to stay in instead. With nothing else to distract her, Antonia decides to make […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: BIPOC, CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, Charish Reid, Contemporary Romance, cozy, Ireland, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, The Write Escape, Writers

Malin's CBR16 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: BIPOC, CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, Charish Reid, Contemporary Romance, cozy, Ireland, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, The Write Escape, Writers ·
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Nobody knows the Troubles I’ve seen

Cal by Bernard MacLaverty

March 19, 2024 by jormis Leave a Comment

‘Would you die for me?’ asks Marcella from Cal after they’ve spent the night together, just the two of them, in a remote farm where Marcella lives with her children and her late husband’s parents. In flashbacks we learn that Cal had been the driver of an execution squad that has killed Marcella’s police officer husband in their doorsteps and gravely injured Marcella’s father-in-law. He hasn’t told Marcella any of this,  of course. The novel tells the story of Cal McCluskey who is a young […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #TheTroubles, Bernard MacLaverty, Ireland

jormis's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #TheTroubles, Bernard MacLaverty, Ireland ·
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Stays the Queen

The Hunter by Tana French

March 18, 2024 by Jake 2 Comments

Tana French is our best living crime writer. Crime fiction, at its best explores the true nature of human beings when at their worst. If there are no atheists in fox holes, there are no angels with guns in their hands. What motivates us to sin? What are the consequences? Why do we commit evil upon our fellow human being? The best writers use their characters rather than their plots to explore this. Tana French doesn’t create characters as much as introduce their fully-lived selves. […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Cal Hooper, Ireland, mystery, Tana French, The Hunter

Jake's CBR16 Review No:25 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Cal Hooper, Ireland, mystery, Tana French, The Hunter ·
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In the Woods by Tana French

December 30, 2023 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I may have read fewer books this year but made an effort to start reading the ones I own. I owe it to my bookshelves to continue the trend in 2024. Tana French’s In the Woods has been on my shelf for way too long. It lived up to all the expectations from past CBR reviews. And I got to “travel” to Dublin for the CBR15 passport challenge. CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries (book 1 of 3) The first Dublin Murder Squad novel […]

https://cannonballread.com/2023/12/in-the-woods-teresaelectro/

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, Dublin Murder Squad #1, in the woods, Ireland, irish detective, mystery, Tana French

teresaelectro's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: dublin murder squad, Dublin Murder Squad #1, in the woods, Ireland, irish detective, mystery, Tana French ·
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