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For anyone who loves a good mystery, this one will prove more than satisfying
There’s plenty of intrigue to be found in Obit by Anne Emery ($24.95, ECW Press, Toronto). Those of Irish heritage will enjoy this one as Declan Burke who fled Ireland forty years earlier, settling in New York, reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy, seeing that it is not about Murphy, but a coded indictment of his own life. Though a Halifax lawyer, Monty Collins, investigates the obit with its allusions to Burke’s IRA past, he gets no help from Burke until a burst of gunfire at a family wedding. That brings Burke’s former commanding officer into the picture and everyone involved has secrets they want to protect. From the farms of Ireland to the tenements of New York City, Monty must try to unravel the message of the obituary without becoming the subject of one. For anyone who loves a good mystery, this one will prove more than satisfying.
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