Travel back to 1965 in the way-back machine. N.B. The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1963 is still an open wound. It has been posited that 1965 “marked a turning point in American history.” In March, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, led a weeks-long march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the…
When the Reverend Grayson Call finally arrived at the pulpit at a quarter past the hour, he was not dressed in his customary robe. Instead, he was in civilian clothes and his trouser legs up to his knees were caked in thick dark mud that had dried in spots and formed small peaks and whorls,…
A Stolen Child, the 4th Maggie D’arcy mystery, continues the story which began with The Mountains Wild. Maggie’s cousin Erin Flaherty, with whom she was exceptionally close, disappears in Dublin in 1993. Erin’s dad Danny, the owner of Flaherty’s Irish bar on Long Island, is unable to leave, so Maggie steps up, searching for Erin…
One “Guards! Guard and American Guard! Guard and American Guard!” My partner, Garda Jason Savage, and I are just finishing up our community patrol when we see two boys beckoning to us along the South Circular Road. Jason rolls his eyes at me. We’ve tried to get to know this little gang of kids who…
Maggie D’arcy is an unforgettable character. In The Drowning Sea she throws caution to the wind and moves to Ireland for the summer. Her life-changing decision is made easier by the difficult circumstances that led to her losing her job as a homicide detective on Long Island, a story told in A Distant Grave. Her…
Introduction by Sarah Stewart Taylor, author of The Drowning Sea, part of the Maggie D’Arcy Mystery Series set in Ireland When I’m traveling, my favorite moments—and memories—are those when I suddenly see a place in a way I couldn’t have if I’d stuck to the tourist quarter or only visited the highlights in the guidebook.…
The aftermath of events described in Sarah Stewart Taylor’s 2020 “critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild,” have complicated Long Island detective Maggie D’arcy’s life. Her relationship with her teenage daughter Lilly is quite fraught. Maggie’s boyfriend lives in Dublin and while every long-distance relationship has problems, she’s not sure there’s a long-term future with Conor. Jay…
Prologue The cold was different here. It got inside you, the raw knife edge of it slipping beneath your clothes at your collar and your cuffs, taking your breath and setting your nerves to alarm. The skin on his face and neck stung; his hands and feet were going about the business of going numb,…
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for A Distant Grave, the follow-up to Sarah Stewart Taylor’s critically acclaimed novel The Mountains Wild. In this second novel in the series, Detective Maggie D’Arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland. Read on for more about the book! Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy…
Maggie D’arcy’s life was shaped by her relationship with her cousin Erin Flaherty. They were as close as sisters: Erin lived with Maggie’s family on and off for years. Erin’s dad, Danny, owns Flaherty’s, an Irish bar on Long Island. Sarah Stewart Taylor has a dab hand in bringing locales to life, like Flaherty’s bar…
