Crafts and Life

Dee Flanagan loves Irish history, bad rom-coms, and red lipstick. Dead clowns, injured time travelers, and shoot-outs don’t make it onto the small-town reporter’s Top Ten list. After the bullets stop flying in Dunleagh Castle’s courtyard, it’s up to Dee to convince people she didn’t imagine a gunfight played out between two centuries.

With the body count rising, and no one willing to believe Dee’s time travel theory, she’s forced to team up with a man who’s either a bona fide fruit cake or a police officer from the year 1919. Using her expert knowledge of the Irish War of Independence, Dee sets out to solve a century-old crime, plus a modern-day murder.

This to me is a comedic tale of a crazy and dysfunctional family with a soupçon of paranormal mystery added in for additional fun!

Dee Flanagan seems to be the only sane one in a family that prides itself on embracing the Woo factor, and in the case of her Nana also embracing souped up mobility scooters, gin/whiskey/poteen/any other alcohol of choice! Mind you Dee doesn't expect her day to go really drastically wrong, she starts off at an illegal cockfight (they were tipped off before she got there though that the Garda would be arriving and so nothing much happened), then has a run in with a mediocre clown, the same one she had arrested for sexual assault! however nothing tips the balance more in favour of "stop the world I want to get off" more than overhearing a gun fight, finding the aforementioned clown dead at her feet and another man dressed in period costume, also shot but at least still alive.  The weirdness ramps up when it is discovered that the bullets in both men are also historical.  With the unknown man in hospital Dee starts using her reporter's skills to try and find out what the heck happened, then things go from bad to worse and her ditzy, yoga and astrology loving Mother is arrested for murder.  This makes it personal and Dee is determined that no-one will railroad her Mam!

An Interview With A Character

What is your full name?

Dervorgilla Flanagan, but I go by Dee.

What is your Profession?

I’m a history vlogger and I makes ends meet by working as a reporter for the Dunleagh Chronicle.

What is your current favourite book or movie?

I have a weakness for rom-coms. My current fave movie is the Netflix Original, Always Be My Maybe.

What is your go to comfort book or movie? 

My fave comfort read is Jennifer Crusie’s ‘Welcome to Temptation’.

If someone was to play you in a movie who would it be? OR what would be the character you would want to be in a book?

I’d love to be Lara Croft, but only for a day. I think all the martial arts moves would wear me out.

What is your ideal evening?

Curled up in a comfortable armchair with a great book and a mug of steaming hot chocolate.

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