Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8320-9
Mara, the Brehon (or judge) for the area of Ireland known as the Burren doesn’t overlook a subtle murder clue in Harrison’s clever 10th 16th-century historical (after 2013’s Chain of Evidence). Kilnaboy Church, where Mara and five of her law...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8783-2
Early in Harrison’s workmanlike fifth whodunit set in 1920s Ireland (after 2017’s A Gruesome Discovery), Reverend Mother Aquinas is devastated to find the body of 22-year-old Sister Gertrude, a promising new member of her convent, in a hen shed....
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8758-0
Set in 1925, Harrison’s solid fourth mystery featuring the Reverend Mother Aquinas (after 2017’s Beyond Absolution) finds her examining a large trunk, a presumed charitable contribution, that’s been delivered to her at St. Mary’s of the Isle convent
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8713-9
Why would Father Dominic Alleyn, on the last day of his life, be troubled by seeing a slightly damaged Japanese ceramic hawk in an antique shop? That’s one of the questions Reverend Mother Aquinas must answer in Harrison’s stellar third whodunit set
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8596-8
Harrison does an even better job of integrating a fair-play mystery with the tensions of early 1920s Ireland in her second whodunit featuring the Reverend Mother Aquinas than she did in its predecessor, 2015’s A Shameful Murder. Mother Aquinas is...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8566-1
The discovery of the body of Clodagh O’Lochlainn on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, where she’s tied to the stone statue of a god with a noose around her neck, propels Harrison’s solid 13th whodunit set in 16th-century Ireland (after 2015’s...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8511-1
Set in 1923, this stellar first in a new Irish series from Harrison (Condemned to Death, her latest Burren mystery set in 16th-century Ireland) introduces Reverend Mother Aquinas, who finds the corpse of a young woman near the gateway to the chapel...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8442-8
Harrison has never been better than in her 12th historical starring Irish investigating magistrate and law school dean Mara (after 2014’s Verdict of the Court). Under Irish law in the 16th century, murdering a close relative is punished by setting...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8378-0
Set in late December 1519, Harrison’s subpar 11th Burren mystery (after 2013’s The Cross of Vengeance) takes Mara, the brehon (examining magistrate) of the region of Ireland known as the Burren, to Bunratty Castle, which falls within the...
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Cora Harrison, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-312-37268-2
In Harrison's captivating second mystery set in the 16th-century kingdom of the Burren in western Ireland (after 2007's My Lady Judge
), the murder of an arrogant steward, Ragnall MacNamara, leaves a wide field of suspects, as does the...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8245-5
The death of the heir of clan MacNamara propels the plot of Harrison’s solid ninth 16th-century historical set in the Burren of Ireland (after 2012’s Laws in Conflict). The man’s kin gather to determine his successor, but before things can be...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8178-6
Set in 1512, Harrison’s engaging eighth Irish historical (after 2011’s Deed of Murder) takes judge Mara, Brehon of the Burren, and her law students to the city-state of Galway, “a tiny island of English law, English language, and English dress...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8071-0
Peter Tremayne fans who can’t get enough of his feisty seventh-century Irish sleuth, Sister Fidelma, will find Harrison’s 16th-century Irish “judge and lawgiver,” Mara, a more than acceptable substitute. At the start of the seventh entry (after May...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6996-8
The threat of Henry VIII's English army looms over Ireland in Harrison's outstanding sixth historical featuring Mara, "the Brehon" (or judge) for her community of the Burren in the west of Ireland (after 2010's Eye of the Law). With her royal...
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Cora Harrison, Author . Severn $28.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6873-2
Set in 1510, Harrison's excellent fifth Irish historical (after 2009's Writ in Stone
) finds series heroine Mara, the brehon
of the kingdom of the Burren who serves both as an investigating magistrate and law school professor, married to...
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Cora Harrison, Author . Severn $27.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6812-1
At the outset of Harrison's outstanding fourth 16th-century historical to feature Mara—brehon (a kind of magistrate) of the Burren, a kingdom on the west coast of Ireland (after The Sting of Justice
, Oct. 19)—King Turlough O'Br
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Cora Harrison, Author . Minotaur $25.99 (355p) ISBN 978-0-312-37269-9
Harrison's stellar third novel set in the Irish kingdom of Burren (after 2008's A Secret and Unlawful Killing
) blends a fair-play murder puzzle with a convincing portrayal of early 16th-century Ireland. Series heroine Mara, the region'
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Cora Harrison, illus. by Susan Hellard, Delacorte, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-73940-5
Who wouldn't want to be a fly on the wall while Jane Austen grew up, had adventures, and went to balls? Or better yet, her most trusted friend and confidante? Harrison introduces readers to Austen via the chronicles of Jenny Cooper, Austen's "best...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8830-3
Harrison is at the top of her game in her sixth whodunit set in 1920s Cork, Ireland, featuring the Reverend Mother Aquinas (after 2018’s Death of a Novice). Joseph Fitzwilliam, the notoriously tight-fisted owner of a “shop selling cheap clothes and...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8876-1
Set in Victorian London, this series launch from Harrison (the Burren series) lacks her usual inventiveness. Insp. Charles Field, the inspiration for Bleak House’s Inspector Bucket, invites authors Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to the morgue to
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8912-6
Harrison’s stellar second Gaslight mystery improves on 2019’s Season of Darkness. In 1855, authors Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, who are close friends despite their differing levels of literary success, are strolling in London when they’re...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8924-9
Set in early 1920s Cork, Ireland, Harrison’s seventh Reverend Mother whodunit (after 2018’s Murder at the Queen’s Old Castle) stands out as her trickiest yet. For many years, wealthy Charlotte Hendrick has declared that her estate will be divided...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9039-9
Harrison’s middling third whodunit featuring Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (after 2020’s Winter of Despair) takes the two Victorian authors to Knebworth House, the Hertfordshire castle that’s home to Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an MP and fellow...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9040-5
In Harrison’s excellent eighth novel set in 1920s Cork, Ireland (after 2020’s Death of a Prominent Citizen), the Reverend Mother Aquinas normally looks forward to the annual weeklong spiritual retreat for the religious superiors of all the Cork...
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5051-5
The prologue of Harrison’s superior fourth Gaslight mystery teaming novelists Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens (after 2021’s Summer of Secrets), a melancholy letter written by Collins on his deathbed in 1889, sets the stage for flashbacks to 1859.
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5052-2
Set in the late 1920s, Harrison’s outstanding ninth whodunit featuring the Reverend Mother Aquinas (after 2021’s Murder in an Orchard Cemetery) opens with an unexpected visit from Dr. Thompson, the bishop of Cork’s Anglican Church of Ireland....
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Cora Harrison. Severn, $30.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0982-5
A fire at a Cork cigarette factory owned by the Reverend Mother Aquinas’s cousin Robert Murphy sparks Harrison’s stellar 10th 1920s Irish mystery featuring the insightful religious sleuth (after 2022’s Murder in the Cathedral). Murphy gave jobs to...
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Cora Harrison. Severn House, $31.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1134-7
With the excellent fifth outing for amateur detectives Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (after 2021’s Spring of Hope), Harrison approaches the level of ingenuity that’s been a hallmark of her Reverend Mother and Burren series. Collins, who feels...
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