A Turn for the BadThe New York Times bestselling author of An Early Wake returns to Ireland where Sullivan’s Pub owner Maura Donovan gets mixed up with smugglers. After calling Ireland home for six months, Boston expat Maura Donovan still has a lot to learn about Irish ways—and Sullivan’s Pub is her classroom. Maura didn’t only inherit a business, she inherited a tight-knit community. And when a tragedy strikes, it’s the talk of the pub. A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone from the local gardai to the Coast Guard is scouring the Cork coast, but when a body is finally brought ashore, it’s the wrong man. An accidental drowning or something more sinister? Trusting the words of the boy and listening to the suspicions of her employee Mick that the missing farmer might have run afoul of smugglers, Maura decides to investigate the deserted coves and isolated inlets for herself. But this time she may be getting in over her head... |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 19 |
Section 4 | 29 |
Section 5 | 38 |
Section 6 | 48 |
Section 7 | 59 |
Section 8 | 69 |
Section 16 | 154 |
Section 17 | 164 |
Section 18 | 174 |
Section 19 | 184 |
Section 20 | 194 |
Section 21 | 204 |
Section 22 | 213 |
Section 23 | 223 |
Section 9 | 80 |
Section 10 | 89 |
Section 11 | 101 |
Section 12 | 111 |
Section 13 | 123 |
Section 14 | 134 |
Section 15 | 144 |
Section 24 | 234 |
Section 25 | 244 |
Section 26 | 254 |
Section 27 | 266 |
Section 28 | 275 |
Section 29 | 284 |
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