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Anne Emery

Death at Christy Burke's: A Mystery (A Collins-Burke Mystery) Hardcover – 20 Oct. 2011

by Anne Emery (Author)

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Book 6 of 11 in the Collins-Burke Mystery Series

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Now available in trade paper There’s a killer on the premises of Christy Burke’s pub in Dublin, according to graffiti spray-painted on the wall. Father Brennan Burke, Christy’s grandson, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Brennan has been tending bar a bit himself and is not all that keen on probing into the lives of his clientele. But he has little choice once a body is found and the property investigation becomes a murder inquiry. The pub’s current owner, issuing orders from his cell in Mountjoy Prison, wants the problem solved, and for reasons of his own does not want the police anywhere near the building. Brennan enlists the help of his pal Monty Collins and fellow priest Michael O’Flaherty, and the three of them uncover dark secrets in the lives of the pub regulars, secrets some might kill for.

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370 pages
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English
Publisher

ECW Press
Publication date

20 Oct. 2011
Dimensions

15.24 x 3.02 x 22.86 cm
ISBN-10

1550229885
ISBN-13

978-1550229882
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Publisher : ECW Press (20 Oct. 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 370 pages
ISBN-10 : 1550229885
ISBN-13 : 978-1550229882
Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.02 x 22.86 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 10,800,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Halifax lawyer Anne Emery's terrific series featuring lawyer Monty Collins and priest Brennan Burke gets better with every book." -- Globe and Mail

About the Author

Anne Emery is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School. She has worked as a lawyer, legal affairs reporter, and researcher. She lives in Halifax, NS, with her husband and daughter. The other books in the Collins-Burke mystery series are Sign of the Cross, winner of the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel; Obit (2007); Barrington Street Blues (2008); Cecilian Vespers (2009); and Children in the Morning (2010).

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ClareT

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2014

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I have read several other Anne Emery novels with these characters and have found the storylines quite entertaining and well worth a read. Has she run out of steam with this? This is tedious in the extreme and I am struggling to finish it at all. What a disappointment.

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Enquiring Mind

Good sound story-telling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2012

I read Book 1 in this series (The Sign of the Cross) and it was pretty good, so I decided to give the other Collins-Burke mysteries a go. I chose this one simply because the Dublin setting appealed to me, even though it is Book 6 and the latest in the series.

What a treat this book was, from cover to cover. Ms Emery has story-telling down to a fine art. Ostensibly this is a murder mystery, but it is so much more. Woven around the main who-dunnit is a wonderful cast of interesting characters, Irish history, solid dialogue, just enough mystery to keep you guessing, a TRULY explosive and heart-breaking finale, and incongruous as it may sound, also some good chuckles along the way.

These days it seems that mystery or who-dunnit writers are encouraged to push the plot along at break-neck speed, whisking the reader along with barely a moment to catch breath. Ms Emery has both the talent and the confidence as a writer not to have to do this. She takes her time and because her story-telling is so good, she can afford to. The story is so tightly woven that she can comfortably take us on journeys which do not detract from the murder mystery but add something to make a richer reading experience. I'm now off to buy the other 4 books which were published in between Sign of the Cross and Death at Christy Burke's. In fact I'm going to buy all 4 at once, stack them on the bedside table and gloat over having something nice to read for the next month.

Do yourselves a favour folks, if you like a good story (not just events strung together to fill pages) then give this series a go. You could read Book 6 without having ever read Book 1. It stands alone fine and Ms Emery does a good job of filling in the background just enough to let you know the joint history of the main characters. She whets the appetite in those little historical snippets, raising interest in particular in Book 1 and Book 2 "Obit", so don't be surprised if you read this one first, you may well want to go and read the rest!

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