Leap Of Hope (An American-Irish-Philosophical-Romance-Murder Mystery)

By Gene Powers

St Patrick's Day in Savannah Georgia. Lucky for some, but not for Detective Rory Connor. And not for the social worker he fails to protect. She's murdered. He manages to kill the assassin but is shot in the process, leaving him with a troubled mind, feelings of guilt and a scar that looks eerily like a jack-o-lantern's grin. Rory goes to the airport and leaving his destination to fate he buys a ticket for a flight as far from home as he can get. Fate brings him to the rugged coast of Northern Ireland where he's surrounded by craggy cliffs, old castles, fields of sheep, and people with strange customs and traditions. Here Rory meets the beautiful enigmatic student, Maeve , who is completing her dissertation on two newly discovered letters of the philosopher Kierkegaard; her sister, a solicitor, who specialises in crimes with a religious motive; a bombastic toga clad ex professor with a rock band; a woman minister and her husband from Denmark setting up a new church and a few other minor but entertaining characters, some who get killed along the way. First, there's a petrol bomb, then a car bomb and two murders. But who is after what and why? The Kierkegaard letters have disappeared. Who has them? Will Rory figure it all out in enough time to prevent any further deaths or will he, once again, fail to protect?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516959280
• ISBN13: 9781516959280
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"