The Pot O'Gold Murder

by Shaun Coen

In a neighborhood full of secrets, everyone’s a suspect. Hard-living Detective Eileen Ryan is called to investigate the murder of a popular bartender in her hometown, a tight-knit Irish enclave in The Bronx, New York. But she can’t quite remember the night of the murder and has to fight off the advances of a creepy forensics officer who places her at the scene of the crime. Ryan discovers secret societies and double lives, as she moves back into her childhood home to care for her father, a retired police officer who suffered a stroke, and comforts her confidante, the hardened Lieutenant Barry Durkin, another neighborhood alum who’s binge drinking through an impending divorce. Will caring for family and friends prevent Ryan from catching the killer—or becoming the next victim?

314 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2016

Reviews

[Athornton]

Sadly I was not that impressed with this book. I felt some storylines were unnecessary...did we really need the whole story of Alvarez on the boat and Keegan and his racism was really emphasized but didn’t really do anything for the storyline. Things were not explained- how did the two guys wind up outside of Eileen’s house? How did she just let go of the Father McLanahan issue? Just kind of let the 5 o’clock club go. I didn’t feel it was resolved. Felt very unfinished and unpolished.

[Carol]

It was ok. There were story lines in the book that felt like they needed to be finished. It jumped around alot from story to story.