Death at Christy Burke's: A Mystery: 6 (Collins-Burke Mystery) - Hardcover

"Emery continues to imbue her stories with a strong sense of place, using real Halifax street names and plenty of affectionate descriptions of the weather and countryside. Series readers will be pleased with the new story and character developments, as will those looking for a fresh setting." --"Booklist "on "Cecilian Vespers"

"Emery, winner of Canada's 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel ("Sign of the Cross"), has written a finely plotted crime novel that incorporates some of the key still-unresolved issues confronting the Catholic Church in 1991, when the story takes place. Readers who enjoy ecclesiastical mysteries by William X. Kienzle and Julia Spencer-Fleming may want to try this one." --"Library Journal" on "Cecilian Vespers"

"By having Normie tell the story, Arthur Ellis Award-winning Emery allows readers to walk beside the girl as she deals with her second sight, the abuse of other children, and the anguish she feels when the peace of her home life is threatened. Not since Robert K. Tannenbaum's Lucy Karp, a young woman who talks with saints, have we seen a more poignant rendering of a female child with unusual powers." --"Library Journal", starred review, on "Children in the Morning"

"Fans of traditional whodunits will be well satisfied." --"Publishers Weekly" on" Children in the Morning"

"The large pool of suspects from around the globe ensure a challenging whodunit. Readers interested in the history and impact of the Vatican II reforms will be especially rewarded."" " --"Publishers Weekly" on "Cecilian Vespers"

"This fifth Monty Collins book by Halifax lawyer Emery is the best of the series. It has a solid plot, good characters and a very strange child who has visions." --"Globe and Mail "on "Children in the Morning"

"Emery's sixth mystery (after 2010's "Children in the Morning") makes excellent use of its early 1990s Dublin setting and the period's endemic violence between Protestants and Catholics." --"Publishers Weekly "starred review (August 22, 2011)

Now available in trade paper There’s a killer on the premises of Christy Burke’s pub in Dublin, according to graffiti spray-painted on the wall. Father Brennan Burke, Christy’s grandson, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Brennan has been tending bar a bit himself and is not all that keen on probing into the lives of his clientele. But he has little choice once a body is found and the property investigation becomes a murder inquiry. The pub’s current owner, issuing orders from his cell in Mountjoy Prison, wants the problem solved, and for reasons of his own does not want the police anywhere near the building. Brennan enlists the help of his pal Monty Collins and fellow priest Michael O’Flaherty, and the three of them uncover dark secrets in the lives of the pub regulars, secrets some might kill for.