Publication: GHOST FLIGHT by Mel Healy

GHOST FLIGHT is the latest offering in Mel Healy’s Moss Reid series, which concerns itself with “a gastronomic private eye whose main patch is around the Stoneybatter and Smithfield districts of Dublin.” To wit:

2008: The Irish economy is about to go belly up, and three Irish businessmen disappear in a light aircraft off the west coast of Ireland. There is no mayday message. No wreckage, no bodies, nothing.
  Six years later, Niamh McElhinney bumps into one of the missing men in the south of France. Then she, too, goes missing. Time to call Wilde & Reid Investigations …
  Stoneybatter private eye Moss Reid is back, in his most complicated case to date, as a slow journey down the Canal du Midi turns into a nightmare race to find a faceless killer.
  GHOST FLIGHT is the third in Irish writer Mel Healy’s series involving Moss Reid, the Dublin PI whose priorities in life are to “eat, drink and investigate – in that order”.

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Marigolds Are The New Black

I mentioned a couple of months ago that Mel Healy’s debut was ANOTHER CASE IN COWTOWN, a foodie PI tale set in Dublin’s Stoneybatter. PI Moss Reid returns in Mel’s sophmore offering, BLACK MARIGOLDS, with the gist running thusly:

It’s the run-up to Christmas, the city’s streets are full of pub crawlers and Christmas Jumpers, and right-wing TD Ned Power is being blackmailed. He has just been snared in a honeytrap. And if you’re dealing with a honeytrap you might as well start with the honey: a honey as young and sweet as you can get ...
  Stoneybatter’s foodie PI Moss Reid is back with more sad cases, skip traces, tasty recipes and a problem with the brussels sprouts.
  The ‘Moss Reid’ mystery series is mainly set in and around the Stoneybatter district of Dublin. BLACK MARIGOLDS is Irish author Mel Healy’s second novel featuring Moss Reid, the private investigator whose philosophy in life is to “eat, drink and investigate – in that order”.

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Reid All About It

Moss Reid is the private eye hero of Mel Healy’s debut novel, ANOTHER CASE IN COWTOWN (Createspace), which is set in Dublin’s Stoneybatter. To wit:

Dublin, Ireland, summer 2013. It’s the middle of a heatwave, and things are hotting up for Moss Reid. He’s the kind of downscale private eye who likes to have the right priorities in life: eat, drink and investigate - in that order. But the Stoneybatter sleuth has way too much on his plate this week: an adoption trace, a missing person, a couple of cheating spouses, a series of thefts at a top Dublin restaurant, and someone has nicked his laptop. So what’s he doing sitting in an interrogation room, being grilled (and boiled and finely diced) by the Murder Squad? ANOTHER CASE IN COWTOWN is the first in Irish writer Mel Healy’s series about Moss Reid, the gastronomic detective whose main patch is Dublin’s urban village of Stoneybatter.

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