by Rhys Bowen
When spirited redhead Molly Murphy commits a murder in self defense she must flee from her family's home in Ireland. Molly meets Kathleen O'Connor and her two children Seamus and Birdie who are getting ready to set sail to America. When Kathleen asks Molly to take the kids on the ship to America an...
Agatha winner from 2001. Set in turn of the century New York, Molly Murphy has fled her native Ireland after fending off the advances of a member of the landed gentry. She has the bad luck to have been the cause of bad fall, resulting in a dead English man.I listened to this book. The narration was ...
I like books set during the turn of the century from around the late part of the Gilded age on through the 20s. I especially like them set in New York during this time. One of the first books I ever read that spurred my interest in this time period was The Alienist - Caleb Carr It can be challen...
3 ½ starsI love the main character: Molly. She's a feisty Irish Redhead who flees Ireland after accidentally killing a landowner and immigrates to New York City at the turn of the 20th century. There are great historical details about the transatlantic voyage, Ellis Island and New York City as wel...
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