Irish Cairn Murder

It is mid-October and unexpectedly cold in Ballynagh, the small Irish village that Torrey Tunet, the young American translator and sometime amateur sleuth, calls home.She has just built a fire of peat and coal to warm her cottage when a window frame collapses, letting in drafts of icy air.Asking around for the services of a carpenter, she hires local teenager Dakin Cameron to do a few repairs.Dakin is an unusually helpful and likable young man with something on his mind.When he receives a threatening phone call at the cottage, Torrey resolves to try to help him.It seems that Dakin is the son of Natalie Sylvester Cameron, a beautiful heiress whose husband died tragically two years before.Dakin is distressed because someone is trying to blackmail Natalie-and even more distressed when the blackmail attempts lead to a case of murder.At times like these, Torrey gets what her friend Winifred calls a "dragon-slaying look" in her eyes.Determined to uncover the truth no matter what the cost-including the ongoing enmity of the local police inspector--Torrey Tunet must call upon all of her wits and courage to solve the latest Ballynagh mystery.AUTHORBIO: Dicey Deere lives in an eighteenth-century whaler's cottage in Sag Harbor, New York.This is her third book featuring the amateur sleuth, Torrey Tunet.Deere, Dicey is the author of 'Irish Cairn Murder' with ISBN 9780312275198 and ISBN 0312275196.