No one retires to Ireland (or anywhere else, for that matter) in order to get caught up in murder mysteries. I did it to take advantage of my dual citizenship and see some of Europe, but full-on retirement wasn’t going to happen on a military pension in Dublin, which turns out to be one of the top twenty most expensive cities in the world. Well done, me. So I got a job working for Leprechaun Limos, and I’ve been driving myself in and out of trouble ever since. . .

Now I’m Megan “oh sure now and you’re that Megan Malone? The one I saw on the Six-One news? About the murder so?” Malone, and my days are an exciting combination of outrageous boredom (there’s a lot of down time, driving a limo) and trying to figure out how my client ended up dead without stepping on the toes of the local garda’s investigation. The good news (?) is I’ve made friends with Paul Bourke, the detective who’s usually on my case (that sounds like I’m the killer. I swear I’m not), and he’s mostly disinclined to arrest me for meddling.

His superiors, OTOH, aren’t crazy about me, and my boss, Orla, thinks I’m a black mark on the limo service’s good name. Unfortunately for Orla and lucky for me, I’m willing to get up for very early shifts, and while plenty of her drivers are happy to stay up all night, getting up early is not, stereotypically speaking, something the Irish do. If she wants somebody fresh and perky, she’s stuck with me. And I get in a lot of sunrises this way, and time at the gym, and a walk with the dogs, so I don’t mind. Besides, there’s no time like a bright early morning to find a body, that’s what they say, right?

All right, nobody says that, and the truth is I don’t mean to keep getting pulled into these things. It’s just that it’s hard to say no to people who need help, and I always did have what I like to refer to as a healthy interest in the community around me, which my mother points out is a long way of saying I’m nosy. Besides, when the client you’re supposed to collect drops dead on the way to the car, it feels kind of personal.

Of course, if it was just once, that would be one thing. It’s the ongoing investigations that started to get me looked at askance, but you’re going to have to wait to hear those details. . .!

In the meantime, welcome to the life and times of the Dublin Driver mysteries. Long may they live!

You can read more about Megan in Dead in Dublin, the first book in the NEW “Dublin Driver” cozy mystery series, coming December 31, 2019.

In Dublin’s fair city, where the girls are so pretty, murder occurs at the feet of sweet Molly Malone . . .

Ferrying tourists around Dublin for the Leprechaun Limo Service makes quite a change after years in the military. Still, Megan Malone is enjoying her life in Ireland. She likes the scenery, the easy pace, the quirky, quick-witted locals. Everything—except having one of her clients drop dead at the statue of fabled fishmonger, Molly Malone.

Most restaurant critics notch up their share of enemies. Elizabeth Darr, however, was a well-loved international star. She and her husband, Simon, had just had dinner when Elizabeth collapsed, and spoiled seafood is the first suspect. The restaurant’s owner, worried her business is doomed, begs Megan to look into it. Between her irate boss and a handsome Garda who’s both amused and annoyed by her persistence, Megan has her hands full even before she’s cajoled into taking care of two adorable Jack Russell puppies (which she is almost definitely not keeping). But if cockles and mussels aren’t to blame, can Megan find the real culprit . . .before another fishy death occurs?

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Meet the author
Catie Murphy began writing seriously at the age of six and never stopped. She is, under the pseudonym C.E. Murphy, the author of numerous best-selling science fiction and fantasy novels. The Dublin Driver Mysteries are her debut cozy mystery series. Born and raised in Alaska, she now lives with her family in her ancestral homeland of Ireland.

To learn more about Catie, visit her website at mizkit.com.

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