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A Distant Grave: A Maggie D'arcy Mystery
A Distant Grave: A Maggie D'arcy Mystery
A Distant Grave: A Maggie D'arcy Mystery
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A Distant Grave: A Maggie D'arcy Mystery

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In the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D'arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland in A Distant Grave.

Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy and her teenage daughter, Lilly, are still recovering from the events of last fall when a strange new case demands Maggie's attention. The body of an unidentified Irish national turns up in a wealthy Long Island beach community and with little to go on but the scars on his back, Maggie once again teams up with Garda detectives in Ireland to find out who the man was and what he was doing on Long Island. The strands of the mystery take Maggie to a quiet village in rural County Clare that's full of secrets and introduce her to the world of humanitarian aid workers half a world away. And as she gets closer to the truth about the murder, what she learns leads her back to her home turf and into range of a dangerous and determined killer who will do anything to keep the victim's story hidden forever.

With the lyrical prose, deeply drawn characters, and atmospheric setting that put The Mountains Wild on multiple best of the year lists, Sarah Stewart Taylor delivers another gripping mystery novel about family, survival, and the meaning of home.

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Release dateJun 22, 2021
ISBN9781250799227
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Sarah Stewart Taylor

SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of the Sweeney St. George series, set in New England, the Maggie D’arcy mysteries, set in Ireland and on Long Island, and Agony Hill, the first in a new series set in rural Vermont in the 1960s. Sarah has been nominated for an Agatha Award and for the Dashiell Hammett Prize and her mysteries have appeared on numerous Best of the Year lists. A former journalist and teacher, she writes and lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This excellent second series installment features New York detective Maggie D'Arcy. Right before she is to visit her boyfriend in Ireland, she responds to the homicide of an Irish man. The man's body showed signs of a severe beating in the past. Maggie's doubts about the long-distance relationship seem compounded when she must use part of her vacation time seeking leads on the case. An angry prosecutor calls her back to New York before her vacation time is up. Readers see the detectives sifting through every piece of evidence, even finding a connection between the prosecutor and the victim. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but this one drew me in and kept me wanting to listen. While in Ireland, Maggie ponders what moving to Ireland might look like, but she knows her experience would not get her a position in the garda and that she would need to go through their training program. I look forward to the next installment.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another strong entry in this series bridging both sides of the Atlantic. This is a strong procedural with atmosphere and romance thrown in.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A good police procedural. Maggie D'Arcy is a homicide detective in Long Island. She's pretty intense!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A very good second installment of the Maggie D'arcy mysteries!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The second in the Maggie D'Arcy series, A Distant Grave, finds Maggie investigating a death of an Irish national in a wealthy Long Island Beach community. She manages a few days of a long awaited vacation in Ireland before an unscheduled return to Long Island as the case unfolds. It would be beneficial to read the first book, The Mountains Wild, prior as many of the returning characters are poorly defined in this second feature.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Maggie has been called into a case. A murder has occurred and the victim is an Irish national. Maggie and her daughter are supposed to leave for Ireland for vacation. So, Maggie decides to do a little investigation while she is there. But this murder turns into more than she bargained for.Ok…I really struggled with this read. I try hard not to write bad reviews. But this book just did not cut it. The story moved slowly but I believe most of the problem is with the narrator, Marisa Calin. She is very breathy, overly dramatic and her accents were atrocious. There were times I actually rolled my eyes.The only thing that kept me listening was the mystery. But to be honest…I only vaguely cared about that.Please forgive the bad review…I just hate to write them. The author spent a lot of time on this book and this is just one person’s opinion.I received this audiobook from the publisher for a honest opinion
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A DISTANT GRAVE by Sarah Stewart Taylor is Book #2 in the Maggie D’Arcy Mystery series.The story progresses seamlessly from Long Island, to Dublin and the Irish countryside and back to New York. I couldn’t and didn’t want to put it down.A very haunting, secretive story; with its share of sadness, hope and despair.Gabriel Treacy, from Dublin, is at the beach on Bay Shore, Long Island, waiting in the freezing winter wind. The person he is to meet doesn’t show up. A bullet finds Gabriel instead.Why is Gabriel Treacy alone on the beach? Who is he waiting for? Who would want him dead? a humanitarian, a highly regarded international aid worker?There is a secret or secrets and Maggie is determined to find out what they are and why they caused his death.A DISTANT GRAVE is a very haunting book; poetic in parts.The work of Maggie and Dave and Marty and others in her department and the police in Dublin (old friends of Maggie’s) - very professional and insightful.The presence of Ireland permeates the story and is very welcome.This book is a wonderful follow-up to THE MOUNTAINS WILD.Highly recommended (I must insist!) *****
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    law-enforcement, procedural, thriller, international-crime-and-mystery, politics, murder, murder-investigation, romance, Ireland, New York*****Very complex.The first body was an unknown on a stark Long Island beach. He turned out to be an Irish national working for a respectable NGO all over the world. But his people have no idea why he is in the US. The next body is the solicitor in Ireland who was closely associated with the first man.Detective Maggie D'arcy is the homicide detective from New York who follows the evidence from home accompanied by her young daughter while also taking a planned vacation to Ireland to spend time with Connor and his son. Great character exploration, plot twists like a double helix, more red herrings than ever.Now I'm stuck because I don't know what to say without doing the spoiler thing. I loved it and it grabbed me by the brain and wouldn't let go.I requested and received a temporary eARC from St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

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