Rhys Bowen
Agatha and Anthony Winner

Molly Murphy Series

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Murphy's Law (2001)

Molly Murphy has to flee from Ireland and finds herself in deep trouble on Ellis Island in Murphy’s Law. (Winner of the Agatha, Reviewer’s Choice and Herodotus awards; Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee)

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Death of Riley (2002)

Molly tries her hand at detective work and gets mixed up in the assassination of President McKinley in Death of Riley. (Agatha and Reviewer’s Choice nominee)

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For the Love of Mike (2003)

Molly goes under cover in the sweatshops of the garment industry and joins the fledgling Ladies Garment Workers Union in For the Love of Mike. (Anthony, Bruce Alexander and Freddy award winner; Macavity Award nominee)

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In Like Flynn

In Like Flynn (2005)

Molly tries to expose a pair of fraudulent spiritualist sisters at a senator’s Hudson river mansion in In Like Flynn. (Macavity Award nominee)

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Oh Danny Boy

Oh Danny Boy (2006)

When former beau Daniel Sullivan is arrested on charges of being in the pay of a gang Molly tries to prove his innocence in Oh Danny Boy.

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In Dublin's Fair City (2007)

Molly risks traveling back to Ireland on what seems to be a simple assignment to find the long lost sister of a theater impresario. But things start to go wrong when Molly is persuaded to change cabins with a famous actress and the actress’s maid is found murdered. And the actress’s luggage is full of guns. Once in Ireland Molly finds herself caught up in the freedom movement and a dangerous mission of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

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Tell Me Pretty Maiden (2008)

It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Molly Murphy started her detective agency, she's snowed under with work. Juggling her time between a supposedly haunted theater, vetting a young man as a potential bridegroom for a Jewish family and trying to prove the innocence of a young man accused of robbery and murder, she needs an associate and who better than her wrongfully suspended beau Captain Daniel Sullivan. As expected the partnership is stormy at times.

Then Molly comes upon a young woman lying in a snowdrift in New York's Central Park. Taken for dead, the woman recovers but has lost the ability to speak or communicate. The authorities about about to pack her off to an asylum so Molly can't help but step in and take on another case.

 

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