Irish Crystal
A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
A foreboding dream, a deadly bombing, and a centuries-old mystery - can Nuala and Dermot unravel the twisted tapestry of lies and secrets before it's too late?
In this latest tale of Irish Crystal, the engagingly fey heroine Nuala Anne McGrail is haunted by a dream of terrible impending evil. Her adoring husband, Dermot Michael Coyne, knows better than to ignore his wife's second sight, but the source of the peril remains unclear. Could it be the Homeland Security agents determined to deport Irish-born Nuala, the spiteful neighbors campaigning against their beloved Irish wolfhounds, or the prosperous Curran clan with whom they've recently become acquainted?
The danger becomes shockingly apparent when a catastrophic car-bombing rocks the Chicago riverfront. As Nuala and Dermot work to uncover the twisted minds behind the attack, they find themselves enmeshed in a complex web of deceit. Nuala's preternatural instincts also lead her to a forgotten manuscript revealing treachery and tragedy in Irish history: the saga of bold Robert Emmet and the failed uprisings of 1798 and 1803.
Caught between the past and the present, this charming couple must navigate a myriad of mysteries, but they're determined to make the truth as clear as Irish Crystal.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Greeley's cute ninth Nuala Anne McGrail novel (after 2005's Irish Cream), beautiful Nuala Anne, who's fey, wakes one morning in a particularly dark mood from a nightmare prefiguring disaster. Soon after, a car bombing strikes the powerful Curran family and sends ripples through Chicago's Irish-American community. Nuala Anne sends Dermot Coyne, her handsome husband, to consult a document, written by an Irish priest who witnessed the execution of Irish patriot Robert Emmet in 1803, which she intuits may help with the crisis caused by the car bombing. Meanwhile, Nuala Anne must cope with a host of other challenges, including the threat from the Homeland Security Department to deport her back to Ireland. Greeley's lovable part-time sleuths always deliver, but here he has almost too much going on. The shifts in Irish dialects, Dermot's internal asides and the document extracts can confuse the uninitiated. Greeley displays two very different families, the Currans and Nuala Anne's, which, like the best crystal on close examination, reveals one badly cracked, while the other shines on brightly.
