Bill Stackhouse
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Black-Irish Setter: A Caitlin O'Rourke Mystery
Type of edition: Trade
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Caitlin (Kate) O'Rourke is not your typical Irish-American lass. At six-one and one-hundred-seventy-eight pounds, with dark skin, raven-black hair, and a nose like an eagle, the MVP setter/middle blocker on the Italian Pro Volleyball circuit is a has-been in her late 20s, prematurely retired due to a blown-out knee. She's bitter, dejected, and not sure of what to do with the rest of her life.Money isn't a consideration. A large salary plus product endorsements have left her quite well off. But Kate needs to do something—something meaningful.
She's been offered a coaching job at a women's college in Fond du Lac, but Kate is unsure—both about wanting to coach and about wanting to subject herself to the Wisconsin winters.
Kehough's Irish Pub in Nashville, Tennessee, with its upstairs apartment, is home to Kate, and the pub itself provides employment for her brother Seamus and his wife Mary Grace. It also, indirectly, provides a solution to her search for something to do with her life.
File this first book in the series under "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished." After Kate rescues a damsel in distress from a mugger, she gets roped into babysitting the woman until the locks are changed on the woman's house. But when Kate's charge is murdered on her watch, the former Irish step dancer, former star athlete, and now owner of a Nashville Irish pub sets out to find out who did it-and why.
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Hickory, Dickory: An Ed McAvoy Mystery
Type of edition: Trade
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In Hickory, Dickory, the exciting sequel to Stream of Death, Catskill sleuth Ed McAvoy's friend Sam Douglas has bought a Queen Anne tall-case clock at auction—at a bargain price. Trading it to Kate Winthrop for her lesser-quality Massachusetts tall-case clock and then selling the Massachusetts to a third party sight unseen seems to bode well for the antique dealer—until the third party winds up dead and, in her dying breath, identifies Sam as her attacker.
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Even with a left leg shattered by a drug dealer's bullet and a medical retirement from the Detroit Police Force, former homicide captain Ed McAvoy feels he is too young to be put out to pasture. True, he thinks, being Police Chief of Peekamoose Heights, a quiet, sleepy little village in New York’s Catskills, will be a far cry from what he has been used to, but it still will be police work—his first love. Besides, McAvoy reasons, the chief's job will also afford him the opportunity to pursue his second love—trout fishing. With the slower pace in the Catskills, being Chief of Police in Peekamoose Heights will be sort of like running a country club, or so he thinks. After all, how much crime can there be? Some occasional petty theft, maybe a little vandalism, perhaps a few drunk-and-disorderly incidents? And every so often, he figures, someone might die—but, then, it probably will be an old person whose time has just run out, or a victim of an unfortunate accident.McAvoy soon discovers that his skills as a homicide detective will not atrophy from lack of use in Peekamoose Heights. Murder, as it turns out, is an equal-opportunity crime that not only resides in large bustling cities like Detroit, but in sleepy little villages like Peekamoose Heights as well.
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