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Small-Town Romance

All the Little Safeties

Laura Carpenter

Ana Byrne learned the weight of a secret at half past six on a Tuesday morning, standing barefoot on the cold tile of her bathroom with the sea still black beyond the window and a white plastic stick balanced on the rim of the sink like a verdict too small for the crime. The house was silent around her. Not peaceful. Silence, Ana had decided years ago, was only peace when someone had chosen it kindly.

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Women's Fiction / Small-Town Romantic Comedy

Aunties of the Apocalypse

Laura Carpenter

Small-town life is rarely quiet when the aunties have opinions. Aunties of the Apocalypse mixes community meddling, family loyalty and romantic chaos with the particular danger of everybody knowing everybody.

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Cozy Mystery

Death at the Jam Table

Bridie Rowan

At Ballycuan's St Brigid fair, jam judge Fintan Vale is found dead beside two near-identical blackberry jars—one bearing Mara Kelleher's name. As librarian Cillian Struan notices an old recipe card, a stained heritage map and a storm lamp tied to secrets the village would rather preserve, a cozy competition becomes an investigation into buried family and community history.

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Cozy Mystery

Scones, Secrets, and One Dead Councillor

Orla Ashdown

The first scone to cause a death in Emerald Harbour was not, strictly speaking, poisoned. Molly Fenn would later be very firm on that point, because a woman might survive gossip, debt, heartbreak, and one catastrophic fringe cut, but she could not survive a village deciding her almond-and-blackcurrant scones were murder weapons. The scone was innocent. The man beside it was another matter entirely.

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Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Radio Hour

Laura Carpenter

When a community radio broadcast exposes missing housing files and coerced family decisions, production assistant Nóra Hynes learns how quickly a microphone can become evidence. Years later, with the old scandal threatening the fragile life she has built, Nóra must decide whether protecting her family means keeping quiet—or turning the red light back on and letting the county hear what powerful people worked so hard to bury.

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Contemporary Women's Fiction

The Sons of Emergency Light

Laura Carpenter

The first emergency light in the Galway count centre went red at twenty-three minutes past six, and every person beneath it pretended not to notice. That was how counties survived themselves: by giving danger a polite nod, making room for it beside the tea urn, and calling the whole performance community. Maeve Killeen noticed. She always noticed. Door codes, lanyard colours, the way a superintendent held his phone face down when a councillor’s wife passed, the little pause before a clerk said a name that used to be protected by old money.

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