

The Burren mysteries
Adult fiction:

Cora
Harrison's My Lady Judge, the first Burren mystery
Published by Pan Macmillan
in 2007
The Burren on the western
seaboard of Ireland was then, in the year of 1509, as it is now, a
land of stony fields and swirling mountain terraces.
The people of the kingdom lived
peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears.
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Cora Harrison's writes...
Cora
Harrison's Michaelmas Tribute, the second Burren mystery
Published by Pan Macmillan in 2008
The kingdom of
the Burren, a land of grey
stone, almost black in the winter rains and fogs, but sparkling
silver in the sunlight, and, in summer, the vivid green of the
valley meadows was stitched with yellow, pink and purple flowers.
Read the opening
chapters
Cora Harrison's writes...

Cora
Harrison's The Sting of Justice, the third Burren mystery
Published by Pan Macmillan in May 2000
The autumn
has come to the Burren, it's a time of harvest: of gathering for
the winter to come.
The end of summer for most and the end of life
for others. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last things she expects is another corpse to be found
on the church steps - a man stung to death by bees.

Writ
in Stone, the fourth Burren mystery
"Christmas, 1510; the Burren, West coast of Ireland. Mara, Brehon (investigating judge) of the Burren, has accepted the offer
of marriage made by King Turlough Donn O'Brien, ruler of that tiny
kingdom of stony land and terraced mountains on the shores of the
Atlantic Ocean.
The marriage is planned to take place at the Cistercian Abbey on
Christmas Day. But, on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man
kneeling in prayer beside the tomb of an ancestor in the abbey
church is violently battered to death...
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Eye
of the Law, the fifth Burren mystery
This book will be out in
the UK on March 2010
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Fiction for children:
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Children's books in Irish
Obair
Mharfach
Scéal
bleachtaireachta eile do dhéagóirí leis an údar aitheanta seo.
Scéal leantach é seo ar an teideal
eile sa tsraith Dhá Chorp a foilsíodh cúpla bliain ó shin.
An babhta seo tá Tom a’ Bhláca agus a
chairde i mbun fiosraithe faoi bhás mistéireach seandálaí a raibh
siad ag obair leis i rith an tsamhraidh.
Another detective story for teenagers by this well known author.
This is a follow up story to the previous title in the series,
Dhá Chorp.
This time, Tom a' Bhláca and his friends investigate the
mysterious death of an archaeologist with whom they were working
during the summer.

Dhá Chorp
Úna
Ní Chonchúir a d’aistrigh
Tógálaithe is
iad ag obair ar shiopa Uí Raghallaigh, tagann siad ar dhá chorp
faoi chláir urláir an tseansiopa.
Léigh
an leabhair ...
Workmen renovating O’Reilly’s shop find two
bodies under the floorboards. Who put them there? How long have
they been there?
Read
an extract from this book in Irish
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