Crafts and Life

Honoring the wish of her late grandmother, Maura Donovan visits the small Irish village where her Gran was born—though she never expected to get bogged down in a murder mystery. Nor had she planned to take a job in one of the local pubs, but she finds herself excited to get to know the people who knew her Gran.  

In the pub, she’s swamped with drink orders as everyone in town gathers to talk about the recent discovery of a nearly one-hundred-year-old body in a nearby bog. When Maura realizes she may know something about the dead man—and that the body’s connected to another, more recent, death—she fears she’s about to become mired in a homicide investigation. After she discovers the death is connected to another from almost a century earlier, Maura has a sinking feeling she may really be getting in over her head…

Maura Donovan is slightly adrift in the world, her dad died when she was young (and her mother had already upped and left) and so she had been brought up by her Grandmother who had left Ireland for America when Maura's father was young (after the death of Maura's Grandfather), the one thing that her Grandmother had asked of her was to go and visit the area where she came from in Ireland and so Maura finds herself in Leap, County Cork.  After visiting an old friend of her Gran's Maura finds herself with a car and driving back to leap she sees a body being taken out of the peat bogs by the Garda.  That night at the local pub it is crowded with people discussing the body and so Maura helps out behind the bar (and ends up being offered a temporary job whilst she is staying in the area!) and then there is a murder, and Maura finds herself in the thick of everything and finding out more about herself and Ireland than she thought possible.