"After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood. When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered--days after responding to a possible domestic violence...

The new owner of Sullivan's Pub in County Cork, Bostonian Maura Donovan is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home just in time for summer tourist season. But the first traveler to arrive wants more than a pint: Althea Melville is on the trail of a long-lost Van Dyck painting. Maura agrees to help her meet the residents at the local manor house. But when the manor's gardener is found murdered, Maura wonders what Althea's real motives are.

Sister Mary Helen is in luck, depending on how you look at it. She and Sister Eileen are in Ireland to attend the weeklong Oyster Festival in the little village of Ballyclarin. They make their first stop at a central oasis of food and drink called the Monks' Table. Mary Helen overhears a woman saying to the man with her, "I am surprised someone hasn't killed you already." But Eileen assures her that it's only a way of speaking, and Mary Helen is relieved,...