No Comfort For The Dead by R P O’Donnell

 

1988 Cork Ireland seemed in a time warp. Attitudes towards women seem feudal but the women in this story know how to get around the old rules. Family feuds carry on for generations and are hidden but not forgotten.

Emma has returned home after her dream of joining the police was thwarted. She now runs the local library and is content at her job. When a local man is murdered, and a man missing for thirty years if at the scene the small town does not seem so charming.

The characters in this story are all special. Hidden attributes and strengths and weaknesses not very apparent but all become relevant when the story progresses. The depiction of small town Ireland is quaint and descriptive.

Sent by Crooked Lane Books for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.