SOUNDTRACK: hiatus
[READ: July 2021] Holding
Graham Norton is a fairly peripheral entertainer in our lives I’ve always enjoyed him when I’ve watched him, but I don’t watch him very often. He’s a good (and funny) talk show host, but who knew that he also wrote novels? And not comic ones.
This story is a mystery set in the remote Irish village of Duneen. They have one policeman (guard), Sergeant P.J. Collins who is overweight and alone. Collins is central to the story, as are Brid Riordan and Evelyn Ross.
Brid Riordan is a wife and mother and she is unhappy. She’s been drinking a lot and her husband has been getting on her case about it–even taking the kids away to his mother’s a few times.
Evelyn Ross is the youngest of the three Ross sisters–a wealthy trio of (orphaned and single) women living in a large estate called Ard Carraig. Abigail and Florence are her older sisters and they dote on Evelyn because a) she found their father when he hung himself and b) she was more of less left at the altar.
Nothing much happens in Duneen. The biggest news is the development that’s going up. And what they find when they start to dig the foundation–human bones. (more…)
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