Death on a Cold, Wild River: A Peter McGarr Mystery - Hardcover

Gill, Bartholomew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688128815 ISBN 13: 9780688128814

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1993

Synopsis

While investigating the drowning death of a former lover, who ran a fly-fishing school in a tiny village, Peter McGarr finds numerous suspicious anglers. By the author of The Death of Love. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Bartholomew Gill authored 15 Peter McGarr mysteries, among them The Death of an Irish Lover, The Death of an Irish Tinker, and the Edgar Award nominee The Death of a Joyce Scholar. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Gill wrote as Mark McGarrity for the Star-Ledger. He died in 2002.

From Publishers Weekly:

In his 10th appearance, Dublin police Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr attends the funeral of former lover and expert fisherwoman, 54-year-old Nellie Millar, who drowned one night while casting for salmon in Donegal's River Owenea. Although he has moved on to a young wife and daughter and a career full of ups and downs (he's currently under suspension), old loyalties goad McGarr to investigate when he finds a sharp cut near the back of the waist of Nellie's waders. He meets her most recent lover, a young American with a wide smile and family in tow, and learns that Nellie's purist ways angered local poachers trying to make a living off the river. He also comes across a sultry Scottish woman who's keen on sex and fishing, looks uncannily like Nellie, ties off a fly like a master and has bedded the available men in the village. Having detailed the somber emotional underpinnings of McGarr in previous books, including Edgar-nominated The Death of a Joyce Scholar , Gill, in this well-turned plot, highlights the rugged vibrancy and anachronisms of Ireland and its citizens without ever succumbing to cliched Emerald Isle sentimentality.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0688128815
• ISBN 13: 9780688128814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251