When a Dublin property developer is found dead on the harbour steps of a remote Connemara village, the Gardaí assume it’s a tragic accident. Fiona Byrne knows better.

Fiona runs the only shop in Duncarragh. She knows every face, every routine, every unspoken agreement that holds the village together. She also knows what she saw from her kitchen window on the night Desmond Kearney died—two figures on the harbour steps, a sharp word carrying up from the water, and a walk she almost recognised.

As Fiona follows the trail from her father’s filing cabinet to the county land registry, she uncovers a decades-old deception buried in the village’s property records—a secret that has quietly shaped who owns what, who owes whom, and who has the most to lose. But asking questions in a place built on loyalty and silence has consequences. Old alliances fracture. The shop is boycotted. Her closest friendship is weaponised against her. And the man with the most to hide is the one the village trusts most.

A cosy mystery with literary depth, Murder in an Irish Village is a story about land, loyalty, and the quiet courage it takes to say out loud what a whole community has agreed to leave unsaid.

The first novel in the Fiona Byrne Mysteries series.