Cora Harrison: 24 books
by Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
When shy Jenny Cooper goes to stay with her cousin Jane Austen, she knows nothing of the world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance that Jane inhabits. At fifteen, Jane is already a sharp observer of the customs of courtship. So when Jenny falls utterly in love with Captain Thomas...
by Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Mara the Brehon investigates the death of a clan leader in this historical mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland by the acclaimed author of Laws in Conflict.
In the western Irish kingdom of Burren, Mara is an investigating magistrate charged with upholding the ancient laws. When the leader of...
Laws in Conflict
A Burren Medieval Mystery 8
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“Harrison, like Peter Tremayne in his Sister Fidelma series, provides a superior brand of historical mystery” Booklist February, 1512. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, judge and lawgiver, has been invited to the magnificent city state of Galway, which is ruled by English laws and a royal charter originally...
Down These Green Streets
Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book suggests crime fiction is now the most relevant and valid form of writing which can deal with modern Ireland in terms of the post-'Troubles' landscape and post-Celtic Tiger economic boom. The book takes a chapter by chapter approach with each chapter and author discussing a different facet...
Fatal Inheritance, A
A Celtic historical mystery set in 16th century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder.
When a woman’s body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient...
Verdict of the Court
A mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A festive celebration turns into a fight for survival when Mara and her clan come under attack . . .
Christmas 1519 is the twentieth anniversary of King Turlough Donn’s reign over the three kingdoms of Thomond, Corcomroe and Burren, so Mara and her scholars are spending the festive period...
Condemned to Death
A Burren mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to the sandy beach of Fanore, on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer and investigating magistrate: a dead man lying in a boat with no oars. Immediately...
by Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Hampton Court, 1522. Two young men, both heirs to an earldom, both rivals. Their hatred comes to a climax when Queen Katherine of Aragon brings her ladies-in-waiting to Cardinal Wolsey's luxurious palace. One of the ladies, Anne Boleyn, is to marry James Butler, son of the Earl of Ormond in Ireland,...
Unjust Judge, An
A Mystery set in 16th century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
An unfairly harsh judge meets a gruesome end in the latest intriguing Burren mystery.
It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent...
Writ in Stone
A Burren Medieval Mystery 4
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - Christmas, 1509. Mara, the investigating judge of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough. But on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man kneeling in prayer in the abbey church is violently murdered. Who could have planned to kill the...
by Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
It’s 1923 and London is a whirl of jazz, dancing and parties. Violet, Daisy, Poppy and Rose Derrington are desperate to be part of it, but stuck in an enormous crumbling house in the country, with no money and no fashionable dresses, the excitement seems a lifetime away.
Luckily the girls...
by Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This “clever” sixteenth-century Irish mystery featuring Mara the Brehon offers “a tantalizing glimpse into the legal system of another time and place” (Publishers Weekly).
When Mara attends the Feast of the Holy Cross at Kilnaboy Church, it is just another duty in her busy life as Brehon...
Murder at the Queen's Old Castle
A mystery set in 1920s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
A rare shopping trip for the Reverend Mother ends in brutal murder in this absorbing historical mystery.
Despite its regal name, the Queen’s Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store, housed within the decrepit walls of what was once a medieval castle, built at the harbour entrance...
Shocking Assassination, A
A Reverend Mother mystery set in 1920s' Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
“Well-drawn characters, including a lead capable of sustaining a long series, complement the clever plot”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Reverend Mother Aquinas is asked to prove a young man’s innocence in the second of this atmospheric new Irish historical mystery series.
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