Murder in G Major

Gethsemane Brown is a vibrant, ambitious, and brave. She’ll strike out anywhere in the world to be a Maestra as long as her life is filled with music.

The offers aren’t what she would like and takes a job in an Irish boys’ academy. The boys were rebellious (of course they are). The school won’t support her recommendations. As the only black woman in the village (and an American), the entire town knew her business before she could even unpack her boxes.

Readers should be prepared for a touch of the paranormal here. Gethsemane lives in a haunted house. Despite… show more.

I’ve always wanted to visit Ireland, and Murder in G Major is the Ireland of my fantasy, with dark smoky pubs, equally smoky bourbon, and handsome men.

The heroine, an American classical musician forced to settle for teaching after losing her dream job, finds herself entangled in the murder and mayhem that plague a small Irish village in this first Gethsemane Brown mystery. Expect the unexpected. Delicious!

A well-done comic cozy. Now, I don’t usually fancy paranormal mysteries, for which there is still some fashion.

Many authors respond by conjuring up creepy spooks and vampires. Gordon conjures Noel Coward’s play Blithe Spirit, with that annoying, wise-cracking dead first wife.

I don’t believe in ghosts, perhaps you do. But I loved Gordon’s ghost of a dead Irish composer, who, wearing his colorful aura, turns up inside his own cottage where Gethsemane Brown is staying.

She’s arrived for the only gig offered her—she’s a black, classical violinist—tune up this brat-filled schoolboy orchestra to win the competition. The boys definitely… show more.

Gethsemane Brown is a classical concert violinist who takes on a job offer in a beautiful cozy village in Ireland. Her lodging is a charming Irish cottage though isolated which gave me jitters, in the beginning, considering this was a paranormal cozy mystery. Envisaging some malefic paranormal activities, the ghost who in fact brusquely crept into her life turned out to be a fun and chatty one. Gethsemane soon finds out that the ghost, Eamon McCarthy, was wrongly accused of murdering his wife twenty-five years ago, and committed suicide himself. When Eamon realises that he can be seen and heard… show more.