Bill Stackhouse

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Caitlin (Kate) O'Rourke is not your typical Irish-American lass. At six-one and one-hundred-seventy-eight pounds, with dark skin, raven-black hair, and a nose like an eagle, the former MVP setter/middle blocker on the Italian Pro Volleyball circuit is a has-been in her late 20s, prematurely retired due to a blown-out knee. Although retirement does not sit well with Kate, she soon finds herself so entangled in other people's difficulties that she doesn't have time to dwell on her own problems. Kehough's Irish Pub in Nashville, Tennessee, with its upstairs apartment, is home to Kate, and the pub itself not only provides employment for her brother, Seamus, and his wife, Mary Grace, but serves as an office for her fledgling confidential inquiries business. In this, the second Caitlin O'Rourke Mystery, Kate goes undercover to investigate a mentally unstable woman's claims that art objects are disappearing and reappearing in her mother-in-law's home. But when Kate's client is accused of the mother-in-law's murder and the arson used to cover it up, Kate must find a way to prove the woman's innocence by unmasking the real killer.