“The Body Falls” by Andrea Carter – Book Review @oceanviewpub @andysaibhcarter #ReadingIrelandMonth23 #TheBodyFalls #BookReview

Guinness

This novel, the fifth in a sequence set in Inishowen, is a well-written thriller with likeable characters. The protagonist is Ben O’Keeffe, a rustic lawyer. His legislation agency is essentially the most northerly solicitor’s workplace in Eire. “Ben” is brief for Benedicta, though it’s not her actual identify… She has lived on this small rural group for a decade following a household tragedy. Right here she made pals. Leah, his secretary/workplace supervisor, Maeve his greatest buddy who works as a vet, Phyllis, who runs the bookstore, and naturally Tom Molloy, an area Garda. Ben lives simply exterior the city of Malin in a cottage she shares together with her black cat whose identify, fittingly, is Guinness. Within the first books of this sequence, the reader is instructed that earlier than coming to this small place, she labored in a big legislation agency in Dublin – and that she suffered a private tragedy.

In “The physique falls“Ben has simply returned to Inishowen after a six month lengthy keep in Sarasota, Florida. Its timing could not have been worse as Inishowen is experiencing the heaviest rainfall in a number of years and the world is flooded to the purpose that the city is sort of lower off from the remainder of the nation.

Having learn the primary novel on this sequence in 2018, I’ve been persistently invested in studying every guide and that is the fifth installment. The sequence has retained its high quality and I am unable to wait to learn extra concerning the life and escapades of Ben O’Keefe.

With themes of charity fraud, sibling rivalry, elder abuse, and the superior and staggering energy of nature, this novel was an actual web page turner. The setting is atmospheric and the characters endearing. After studying this guide, I felt decidedly soggy, because the flood scenes have been so effectively written. The Inishowen Peninsula skilled devastating floods in 2017 and the writer primarily based these scenes on that. The peninsula was utterly remoted from the remainder of the nation with bridge collapses, downed bushes and a number of highway closures.

The writer is a lawyer herself, so a part of the story is educated and compelling. Not gritty by any means, however one way or the other extra critical than a ‘snug’. The shivers of romantic pressure between Ben and police officer/guard Tom Molloy have grown over the sequence and so they now come to phrases with the reality of their emotions for one another.

I can see how Ben’s’curiosity‘ coupled along with his work and his romantic curiosity within the metropolis policeman will spawn many extra fascinating tales for these series. The ending left the reader with an ideal transition to the following guide. This can be a sequence that I intend to observe with eagerness. Beneficial. ♣

I acquired a free digital copy of this novel from Oceanview Edition by way of Edelweiss – at my request, for my very own pleasure in studying and scripting this overview.

ISBN: 9781608094301- A SIN: ‎ B0B3F9DLRR – 337 pages

Andrea Carter graduated in legislation from Trinity School Dublin. She certified as a barrister and moved to the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal the place she lived and labored for a number of years. In 2005 she was admitted to the bar and moved to Dublin to observe as a barrister. She grew up in ballyfinCo.Laois.

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