The Body Falls

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Bridges Down—Roads Impassable—Killer TrappedApril in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a U.S. law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is taking place. The town is abuzz with excitement, but it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. The rain doesn’t stop—it becomes relentless, torrential.
In the middle of the night, Police Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto a passing vehicle. It is identified as Bob Jameson, a well-known charities boss and the organizer of the cycling event. Stunned, the local doctor finds evidence of a recent snakebite. Terrible weather persists and soon bridges are down and roads are impassable. Glendara is completely cut off and since there are no native snakes in Ireland, could there be a killer trapped in the community? With no help from the outside world, it’s left to Molloy—with Ben’s assistance—to find out who is responsible for Bob Jameson’s bizarre death.
Perfect for fans of Louise Penny, Lisa Gardner—and, of course, Agatha ChristieWhile all of the novels in the Inishowen Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Death at Whitewater Church
Treacherous Strand
The Well of Ice
Murder at Greysbridge
The Body Falls
Praise for the Inishowen Mystery Series “Carter keeps the suspense high en route to the exciting climax. Fans of Gerald Elias’s Daniel Jacobus series will want to check this out.” —Publishers Weekly “[Death at Whitewater Church is] haunting, atmospheric, and gripping. One of the finest Irish mystery debuts of recent years. Tana French has some serious competition.” —John Connolly, New York Times best-selling author
“An entourage of fascinating people and mysterious places lace [Death at Whitewater Church] with plenty of bark and bite. A captivating gem.” —Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author
“The weather, as an additional character in the plot, is very effective. Though part of a series, this book can be read as a stand-alone. Recommended for fans of Carlene O’Connor and the “County Cork” series by Sheila Connolly.” —Library Journal “Combining elements of the locked-room mystery with those of a village cozy, Carter offers a tale that is both charming and surprisingly complex.” —Booklist “A phrase written for the [Inishowen Mystery] series debut begs revisiting: What starts as a metaphoric soothing tea, served in exquisite porcelain, ends with the kick of a brandy-laced double espresso." —Bookreporter “Treacherous Strand is atmospheric, intelligent and utterly gripping – a real treat for fans of Irish crime fiction.” —Catherine Ryan Howard, USA Today best-selling author
“[Murder at Greysbridge] is truly a perfect choice for fans of character-driven mysteries set in thrilling surroundings . . . It has everything a reader could possibly want in a stellar piece of writing. Agatha Christie would be proud.” —Suspense Magazine “[The Well of Ice is] another riveting suspense thriller of a mystery from an accomplished master of the genre.” —Midwest Book Review Andrea Carter grew up in the midlands of Ireland, studied law at Trinity College Dublin, and worked as a solicitor on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, where she ran the most northerly solicitor’s practice in the country. Following that, she moved to Dublin to practice as a barrister before turning to write crime novels. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin.
The Body Falls is the fifth in the Inishowen Mystery Series. Carter’s first book, Death at Whitewater Church, a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, was followed by Treacherous Strand, The Well of Ice, and Murder at Greysbridge. She has been the recipient of two Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Awards and a Dublin City Council Bursary Award. The series is being adapted for a television crime series to be titled “Donegal—The Inishowen Mysteries”. Andrea Carter lives in Dublin with her husband, documentary maker Geoff Power. Andrea Carter has increasingly been dubbed “the rebirth of Agatha Christie." Thus, a perfect choice for fans of traditional mysteries looking for unique characters, a stunning setting, and minimal graphic violence. 

The Body Falls is the fifth in a series of mysteries set in the fictional town of Glendara on the Inishowen Peninsula with amateur sleuth, solicitor Ben (Benedicta) O’Keeffe 

The Inishowen mystery series is being adapted as a television series to be filmed in Inishowen: “Donegal—The Inishowen Mysteries” 

All five novels in the series were published initially in Ireland and the UK 

The author—as is the protagonist in The Body Falls—is a solicitor and barrister and ran the most northerly legal practice in Ireland 

Irish Times review of The Well of Ice: “Carter writes very much in the village mystery tradition, with a likable, amateur detective, an atmospheric and vividly rendered sense of place, and engagingly drawn series characters . . .” 

Andrea Carter’s previous novel, Death at Whitewater Church, was the winner of Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, the recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Award, and was chosen by Books Ireland as one of its debuts of 2015 and named Thriller of the Week in the Irish Daily Mail. Death at Whitewater Church was chosen by the National Library of Ireland for their prestigious Border Literature series 

Bookstore1 in Sarasota, FL, is specifically mentioned in author’s Acknowledgment 

Author is active on social media and attends major mystery conferences in the U.S. 

John Connolly, international best-selling author, is an Andrea Carter fan: “One of the finest Irish mystery debuts of recent years. Tana French has some serious competition.” 

Louise Penny and her depiction of Canada as a backdrop for Agatha Christie-type mysteries is very similar in style to Andrea Carter’s Inishowen novels  

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