Death at the Shamrock & Stone: A Fiona Callahan Irish Village Mystery

A cozy Irish village. An old pub photograph. A family secret worth killing for.

Professional genealogist Fiona Callahan has come home to Kilcarra, a windswept village on Ireland’s western coast, hoping for a quieter life among parish records, old maps, and cups of tea strong enough to argue back.

Quiet, however, is not Kilcarra’s specialty.

When a local man is found dead at The Shamrock & Stone, the village pub becomes the center of a mystery tangled in old family rivalries, a disputed cottage deed, and a faded photograph that suddenly matters far too much. The victim had been asking questions before he died—questions about the Callahans, the O’Rourkes, and a name missing from the parish records.

Fiona is no detective. But she knows how to read what others overlook: a date that does not fit, a family story told too smoothly, a grave inscription weathered in just the wrong place, and a roomful of villagers who all know more than they are saying.

With Garda Declan Byrne warning her not to interfere, Aunt Maeve serving pub wisdom with a side of suspicion, and Kilcarra’s gossip mill turning faster than the Atlantic wind, Fiona must untangle the truth before an innocent person is blamed.

Because in Kilcarra, every family tree has a broken branch.

And some branches were cut deliberately.

Death at the Shamrock & Stone is the first book in the Kilcarra Irish Village Mysteries, a clean, atmospheric cozy mystery series featuring genealogy, parish records, pub gossip, old deeds, village secrets, and a warm-hearted amateur sleuth determined to give the past its proper name.