Night of The Blackbird
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Publisher Description
Get tangled up again in a story of danger that is complicated by desire in this classic romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
Moira Kelly has come home to Boston to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the family pub, but soon confronts an undercurrent of danger as talk turns to politics. She’s caught in the clash between the convictions of her new boyfriend and the anger of her old flame, who is unexpectedly in town. When suspicious events at the bar turn into cold-blooded murder, Moira doesn’t know who to trust. There’s a conspiracy that threatens to bring forth the violence and hatred of a different time and place, and Moira discovers that a generation is not long enough to soften the desire for revenge.
Originally published in 2001
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Graham's powerful romantic thriller (after Night Heat, etc.) offers a cool, reasoned look at how Irish-Americans cope with the violence occurring in their homeland. Kelly's Pub, a family-owned establishment in Boston, is ground central for the Kelly family reunion, a St. Patrick's Day celebration and, quite possibly, a terrorist operation. When a cable TV producer, Moira Kelly, brings her boyfriend, Michael McLean, home to meet her family, she immediately senses that something is amiss. Her brother frequently disappears at all hours of the night to meet with his "associates," her father's best friend gives her cryptic warnings and later turns up dead and her ex-boyfriend, Danny O'Hara, seems to be hiding things from her. To complicate matters further, there's a serial killer on the loose who may be connected to the St. Patrick's Day conspiracy that's brewing at the pub. As the suspense mounts and the number of red herrings rises, Danny works to draw Moira away from her picture-perfect boyfriend and rekindle their old passion. The narrative's high suspense and charismatic characters will engage, but an excess of detail occasionally impedes its momentum. Unlike many romantic suspense novels, however, this gripping tale strikes a perfect balance between romance and intrigue.
