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Obit: A Collins/Burke Mystery

Anne Emery

• ECW Press
• ISBN: 978-1-55022-905-9
• May 2009
• $14.95

Declan Burke fled Ireland for New York 40 years ago and has never looked back. Then he sees his own obituary in the paper. Monty Collins – lawyer, bluesman, and perpetual suitor to his estranged wife, Maura – investigates the obit with its veiled threat and its allusions to Burke's IRA past. Declan – good soldier to the end – maintains the silence of the grave. But his denial is hard to maintain when gunfire erupts at a family wedding and a body is found in a rundown Brooklyn flat. It soon becomes clear that Declan has been manipulated all along by an unseen hand.