![]() Then he studied the large mirror at the edge of the rug. He tugged at the edges, making sure it was lying flat and unruffled. He leapt off the stool and scurried back across the room to the large rug just inside the front door. Anxiety was beginning to overwhelm him and he struggled even more to catch his breath. Could he handle four? What about the time three of them turned up? He wasn’t expecting that either and it nearly turned into a disaster. Then in a heartbeat, the excitement turned into a heavy lump of apprehension. He never had a problem with just one or two. Four! It was usually just the one, sometimes two. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected this. The excitement that bubbled through him made it difficult for him to breathe but still he did a little dance on the stool. Leaning forward he kissed the statue’s feet. Jacob Butts scurried across the room, leapt up onto a stool and reached out to the statue of The Virgin Mary on the mantelpiece. ![]() Keane and Bryan MacMahon, who often wandered into the shop for a chat and bit of jovial banter.After serving nine years in the Royal Navy, Brendan progressed to retail management, working as a Department manager with the UK’s second largest Supermarket.Now retired, his hobby is writing short stories, twenty of which have already been published individually over the years, and also as a collection called Dreamin DreamsDark September is his first full novel, and Gallows Field is the first time we meet Eamon Foley in a murder mystery set in Ireland in 1941A Pale Moon Was Rising is the next story to feature Eamon Foley, now with the Gardai investigating another murder in Tralee, Co Kerry. It was there that his love of words was kindled by the stories of John B. Brendan Gerad O’Brien was born in Tralee, on the west coast of Ireland and now lives in Newport, South Wales with his wife Jennifer and daughters Shelly and Sarah.As a child he spent his summer holidays in Listowel, Co Kerry, where his uncle Moss Scanlon had a Harness Maker’s shop, now long gone.The shop was a magnet for all sorts of colourful characters.
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