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It's 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister's arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan's cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the murdered cop's partner and are caught in a tangle of buried family memories.

Monty Collins is a sharp-tongued public defender who just wants to represent an upstanding character for a change. A priest with something to hide isn't quite what he had hoped for, but when the literate, arrogant, and tight-lipped Father Brennan Burke is implicated in the strange murder of a young woman, Monty doesn't just take the case - the case takes him. When Burke won't come clean, Monty is forced to play private detective, traveling into his client's past. Things look good for the case until another body is found....

As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it’s as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it’s a good time for Brennan’s cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election in a future peacetime government. But then a man goes off a bridge on a dark, lonely road; a rogue IRA enforcer is shot; and a series of car bombs remains an unsolved crime.

Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats—public housing—on Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda Síochána, the Irish police. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the tenements of Dublin have not been welcome. When his friend Rosaleen is killed and the case goes unsolved, Shay decides to put on the uniform of a Dublin garda and sets out to find the killer. Shay knows Detective McCreevy is waiting for the chance to get revenge. But the violent death of a prominent politician gives Shay the opportunity to prove himself.

Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers - and occasionally investigating murders himself - but he's never come up against anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned German theologian who has been found dead on the altar of an old church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saint Cecilia's Day. The controversial priest, once a top insider in the Vatican, was known to provoke strong feelings in Catholics, and now those feelings have overflowed with horrifying results.

Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and he’s been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. He’s barely managing, but his troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the coast of Halifax. Meika Keller came to Canada after escaping past a checkpoint in the Berlin Wall. An army colonel is charged with her murder, and defense lawyer Monty argues that Meika’s death was a suicide, which is the last thing Father Burke wants to hear.

Long ago, Declan Burke fled Ireland in the dark of night, started a new life in New York City, and has never looked back - until one morning when he picks up the newspaper and reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. He sees at once that the obituary is a coded summary of his own life and probably a thinly veiled death threat. He turns to Halifax lawyer Monty Collins for advice, but when Monty starts to investigate the obit’s allusions to Declan’s IRA past, Declan decides to keep his lips sealed.

Sally Burnaby looks forward to a carefree, happy summer with nothing to do but be with Scotty. But she soon discovers that the world does not stop for a couple in love. In fact, she finds that sometimes there are disadvantages to going steady.

It is a big moment in Jean Burrnaby's life when she is asked to join her high school sorority, the Nightingales. For a while sorority life is a dream come true, but Jean discovers joining a sorority isn't quite what she thought it would be. Jean sees both sides of sororities: the heartbreak of being left out and the disillusionment of being "in." She, ultimately, makes a decision that astonishes Sherwood High.

Jean Burnaby's senior year at high school is complicated by a new girl in class named Kim Ballard. Her romantic interest, Jeff, is also getting too serious. The strain of her relationships conflicts with Jean's plans to study the piano. Another great Anne Emery title!

A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar on Barrington Street. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins suspects it's a double murder. Helped by his friend, Father Brennan Burke, and hindered by his femme fatale law partner, Felicia Morgan, Monty explores the dark side of Halifax society: hookers, drug addicts, boozers, gamblers and people desperate to cover up a series of parties that got way out of hand.

Dinny Gordon's junior year in high school is unusually filled with problems. Feeling unready to go steady, Dinny struggles with her feelings for Curt and her attraction to Tom. Meanwhile, she takes a job but loses it due to a shoplifting incident. Dinny, then, confronts prejudice among her friends when a Jewish family moves into the neighborhood. A job at the public library is one of the best aspects of her junior year.... until she attends a college lecture that fuels her love of ancient history. And it doesn't hurt that Brad Kenyon is standing by with a helping hand...

When Tim goes away to college, Pat is left behind to finish her last year of high school. They have decided to date others and keep their lives as normal as possible while they are separated. But Pat grows very impatient. As her senior year goes along, she finds to her own astonishment that she is growing up a little! A friend persuades her to go out for dramatics and she finds an engrossing new world. Thrilled and happy about her discoveries, Pat tries to share them with Tim. But he isn't interested. Pat is so distressed that she wonders about their future together. It is only after Pat ...

Book 4, Dinny Gordon Series. In her senior year at Rosemont High, Dinny finds out about love at first sight. The boy is Steve Denison, a freshman at Rosemont College. But she also finds out that in love, there can be a lot more of giving than receiving. Dinny learns to handle the conflicts of love, school, and the future. And throughout her senior year, Dinny plans for her summer tour of sites of ancient history in the Mediterranean and then classes at the university in the fall. Another nice constant in her life is the support of Brad Kenyon...

First year at college brings Jean Burnaby lots of problems, but also a new view of life and of herself. Jean hates to say goodbye to Scotty but wants to be very sure of herself before she enters a serious relationship. With many decisions to make in college about friendships, finances, studies, and music, Jean finds her biggest problem is dealing with campus hero, Phil Stewart. The final book of Anne Emery's Burnaby Series.

When spray-painted graffiti appears on the wall of Christy Burke's pub, indicating that there's a killer on the premises, Burke's grandson, Father Brennan Burke, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Though not at all keen on probing into the lives of the bar's clientele, he has little choice once a body is found on the property. Issuing orders from a cell in Mountjoy Prison, the pub's current owner wants the problem solved without the police anywhere near his building.

The second book in Anne Emery's Dinny Gordon series finds Dinny a year older, but still not terribly interested in dating. Although most of Dinny's friends and classmates at Rosemont High have boyfriends, Dinny spends much of her time watching, wondering, and avoiding commitment, until her friend Sue breaks up with Curt Beauregard...

Dinny Gordon is a freshman at Rosemont High School. Dinny is hard at work earning money toward a trip to Rome. Although boys are not at the top of her list of interests, Dinny's friendship with a senior boy looks as though it might turn serious. Does a case of measles interfere with romance?

Sally Burnaby's senior year in high school starts badly, but ends up as exciting as any girl could wish! After arriving home from a wonderful summer vacation, Sally is upset to learn that her best friend, Kate, is going away to boarding school. Then Scotty starts dating a new girl, leaving Sally without a steady date for dances, parties, and football games. Much is happening in the Burnaby family home on Juniper Lane as well - with Mother and Dad, sophomore Jean, grade school Ricky, pigtailed Betsy, and little Jimmy. Among many choices and decision, Sally has to choose new friends, decide ...

Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald - the beloved step dancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton's famed Clan Donnie band - vanishes after a family party. There was no stranger spotted lurking around, but no one thinks for one minute that Bonnie ran away. Maura MacNeil, cousin to Clan Donnie, offers her husband's legal services to the family as the police search for the missing girl. But fame attracts some strange characters, and Clan Donnie has groupies. So, it turns out, does lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins.