The Lost Traveller: A County Cork Mystery Mass Market Paperback – November 26, 2019

The author does her research. I always learn something new about Ireland. Good read.

Another good book about the adventures in the life of Maura Donovan. Hard to believe that one person can get into so much trouble without trying. Same colorful characters join her with a couple more added.

It was a great read. I read the whole series.

The plot of the book was really good which is why I keep coming back for more about Maura Donovan. Trouble seems to find her even if she isn’t looking. I enjoy reading stories set in Ireland. And, with every book, I learn more about the Irish culture and about life in Ireland. This time, it was the “travelers” and the illegals coming into the country. I found the travelers so interesting that I did some research to learn more about them. To me books are more than an enjoyable experience, I like to learn about something new as well.However, there were spots where the book dragged. And, where the story of the body and where it was found was to repetitive. But the last few chapters brought the book home and made the whole read enjoyable. Thank you Sheila for the enjoyment of your book and for the learning experience.

I enjoy Irish Taverns. I saw several visiting Ireland with a tour the one we visited much to large to compare. This was interesting and I definitely will read more but I found the story was very repetitive and overlapping. still loved th characters

Maura Donovan’s worries about her Pub, Sullivan’s, include too slow days, and finding more help for when they have events, whether to redo the old kitchen and offer food, whether to rent the rooms above, oh, and there is the dead body she spots in the ravine beside the Pub. Can this be why business is so slow? But her attempts to help the Gardai identify the dead young man seem fruitless.

There was finally more about Maura and Mick and I loved that! I am getting impatient waiting for her to get her her self situated!!!

THE LOST TRAVELLER is a County Cork Mystery written by Shelia Connolly.Boston native Maura Donovan is living and working in the small town of Leap in County Cork in Ireland. She unexpectedly inherited Sullivan’s Pub after the death of her grandmother.Maura discovers a dead body in the ravine near the pub and the book revolves around this ‘mystery man’, for no one can identify him.I want to like this title and this series so much. I have visited the area many times and I like the locale and the premise for Maura being in Ireland. The book cover (on my Kindle Fire) is beautiful and beckons you into the book. I think Ms. Connolly has traveled, herself, in the area and tries to weave some local color and incidents and issues into her story. But there is very little plot. There is page after page of Maura complaining and whining over and over again about the same things. She takes no responsibility for anything - can’t and won’t learn to use a computer for her business; doesn’t ‘do the books’ for the pub; has been barely out of Leap after a year in Ireland; knows no local laws, rules, regulations. Whine - Whine -Whine - that is the plot!The whole issue of immigration is ‘sort of’ brought up, as Maura needs employees to help run the bar, but the issues and rules are glossed over and not fully explained.I really don’t like these ‘cozy mysteries’ where the local police force is written off as incompetent. It is just not true. The main character comes off as an interfering, ignorant busybody.This title is a no-go for me.

Horrible narrative. It felt like the author was trying to fill enough space to make a novella out of it. Wont buy another book from her again.

I gave up well into the book because it was too slow. The same happened to my husband when he started reading it.

Pretty crappy...

It’s good, however not as good as the ones before