As the new owner of Sullivan’s Pub in County Cork, Ireland, Maura Donovan gets an earful of all the village gossip. But uncovering the truth about some local rumors may close her down for good…
Bostonian Maura is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home, just in time for summer tourist season to bring fresh business to her pub. But the first traveler to arrive is thirsty for more than just a pint of Guinness. Althea Melville is hot on the trail of a long-lost Van Dyck painting.
Maura agrees to help Althea meet with the residents at the local manor house, the most likely location of the missing art. But when the manor’s gardener is found murdered, Maura wonders what Althea’s real motives are. Now, to solve the secret of the lost portrait and catch a killer, Maura will have to practice her Irish gift of gab and hunt down some local history—before someone else is out of the picture…
Maura is beginning to find her feet in Leap and Sullivan's when one day an American arrives like a whirlwind and manages to get Maura to help her track down a Van Dyck painting (Althea needs the help as she seems to be able to get on the wrong side of the Irish without even trying!), the problem seems to be that someone else may have the same idea, and unfortunately a local young man has fallen foul of whoever and ended up dead. Now Maura, her new friend Gillian (a local artist), Harry (the local landowner) and Althea have a race against time to find the painting and find out the truth about the death.
Their journey takes them from Sullivan's, to the local manor house and a side trip to a Nunnery before everything is finally resolved.
Crafts and Life 
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