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Join us for a Book Launch with Paul Charles to celebrate the publication of the third McCusker Mystery

Thomas Barry, Lefty Kelly, and Brendy McCusker were all teenage boys who were roaming the streets of Portrush, Country Antrim in Northern Ireland in 1976 when Thomas Barry quite literally bumped into Isabella Scott, and he uttered the words of the title.

In July 2019 the same Thomas Barry’s remains were discovered at the foot of the Pilgrim’s Steps in the Portrush Harbour.  McCusker and DI Lily O’Carroll are conscripted from the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) in Belfast to help the already stretched local police force work on the case. They discover McCusker’s childhood friends Barry and Isabella Scott had married and then… well then everything became very complicated relationships wise involving Isabella’s sister, Colette, lawyers, accountants and showband singers. Thomas had become an ultra-successful property developer, sometimes in partnership with the Buckley Brothers, at least one of whom doesn’t mind the
cowboy approach to work.
Set against the backdrop of the (actual) UK Golf Open taking place in a small seaside town, where absolutely everyone has an opinion, and their opinions they are keen to share.
Paul Charles began his career in music at fifteen, managing his first band, The Blues by Five, in his hometown of Magherafelt, Northern Ireland.

Charles co-founded the Asgard Agency with Paul Fenn and has since represented major artists including Tom Waits, The Kinks, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant and Rory Gallagher. He has also programmed the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival for 25 years. A lifelong writer, Charles published his first Christy Kennedy mystery in 1997. His eleventh novel, Departing Shadows, appeared in 2019.