A Mysterious Review of The Haunting Ballad by Michael Nethercott. A Lee Plunkett and Mr. O'Nelligan Mystery.
Review summary: The storyline in this second in series mystery is fairly complex, though straight-forward to follow. The Sherlockian process of deduction is put into play here as the delightful pair of investigators conduct their investigation. This is definitely a series worth watching and following. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Haunting Ballad
Michael Nethercott
A Lee Plunkett and Mr. O'Nelligan Mystery
Minotaur Books (September 2014)
Publisher synopsis: It's the spring of 1957, and O'Nelligan and Plunkett are summoned to New York to investigate the death of a controversial folk song collector. The trail leads the pair to a diverse group of suspects including an eccentric Beat coffee house owner, a family of Irish balladeers (who may be IRA), a bluesy ex-con, a hundred-and-five-year-old Civil War drummer boy, and a self-proclaimed "ghost chanter" who sings songs that she receives from the dead. To complicate matters, there's a handsome, smooth-talking young folk singer who Lee's fiancée Audrey is enthralled by. And somewhere in the Bohemian swirl of the Village, a killer waits …
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