Review by Booklist Review
A story called Irish Eyes that begins on St. Patrick's Day and features a protagonist named Callahan Garrity would seem to be aimed at a very targeted audience. In fact, this eighth installment in Trocheck's series will appeal to Irish and non-Irish alike. Former Atlanta cop Garrity returns to crime solving when her ex-partner, Bucky Deavers, is shot on the way home from a party he finagled her into attending at the Shamrock Society. With the help of the eccentric staff of her housecleaning business, Garrity vows to get to the bottom of the shooting. This is an entertaining, suspenseful romp. The plot zips along but not too fast to blur the exceptional characters. Trocheck's obvious firsthand knowledge of Atlanta makes her descriptions of the city shine with realism. Evanovich fans will appreciate some similarities, but Trocheck's humor is drier. Irish eyes won't be the only ones smiling while reading this first-rate thriller. --Jenny McLarin
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Atlanta PI and former police officer Callahan Garrity displays her usual pluck in the eighth outing of this warm-hearted series. On the way home from a St. Patrick's Day party, Garrity and Bucky Deavers, her partner on the robbery squad from her days on the force, stumble on a liquor store holdup. Bucky is shot in the head while a key witness, the liquor store cashier, flees the scene with her screaming baby. Garrity has her work cut out for her. Bucky, like many underpaid cops, has been moonlightingÄas a security guard for the owner of the store where the robbery took placeÄand the police suspect him of having been involved in the crime. To clear her former partner, who lies close to death in the hospital, and to locate the missing witness, Garrity enlists the aid of the Shamrock Society, whose members include ex-cops from the Atlanta neighborhood where she grew up; she also calls upon two elderly sisters who work for House Mouse, the cleaning business Garrity runs to pay the rent. After another cop is shot, Garrity begins to suspect that something is rotten at the Atlanta P.D. Meanwhile, her current love, Mac MacAuliffe, is contemplating a job offer in Nashville. Trocheck skillfully blends family, generational, ethnic, racial, medical and criminal conflicts into her Irish stew. Her Garrity is an appealing heroine, hard-working and principled, while Bucky is just one of many well-drawn members of the community of family and friends for whom she gives her all in this satisfying tale. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
When Callahan Garrity was a cop'that is, before she left the force to become a capitalist'Bucky Deavers was her partner. Busy running House Mouse, Inc., an increasingly profitable Atlanta cleaning service, she doesn't get to see much of him anymore, but she still counts him a major bud. Now it's St. Patrick's Day, and suddenly there's Bucky at her door, resplendent in celebratory green, begging her to join him at the annual police frolic. He wants her to meet his girl, he says, the all-time love of his life. Reluctantly, Callahan agrees. It's not jealousy, mind you''brother-sister' describes their relationship'it's just that Callahan has learned the hard way how unpredictable cop bashes can be. And this one goes wrong in a hurry. Bucky's girl doesn't show; he drinks too much; and Callahan has an unpleasant encounter with a detested former colleague. All this, however, is only prelude to a truly horrifying turn of events. On the way home, Bucky insists on stopping off at a liquor store, a fatal decision. He interrupts what seems to be a robbery, in the process taking two bullets to the head. But is that really what it was, a simple robbery? Or was it more complex'a product of secret agendas belonging to wolfish predators disguised in blue clothing? Less frothy than the previous entries in this series (Midnight Clear, 1998, etc.); and here, darker is better.
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