A murder mystery set in Ireland during WW2The war in Europe is turning. But Ireland is still under enormous pressure from the lack of basic essentials. And the constant threat that Germany could use it as a back door to attack Great Britain.So when an unidentified submarine is spotted in Tralee Bay on the west coast the alarms sound.Next morning the body of a young man with fatal head injuries is found in the River Lee. He's wearing a distinctive silver ring.Garda Eamon Foley traces the ring to Paudy Daly, the oldest son of the notorious Mixer Daly who has been missing for over nine months.So who is the mysterious dead man, and why is he wearing Paudy's ring?Then Garda Foley learns that the last time Paudy Daly was seen alive, he was on his way to rob the home of a reputable pig-breeder. 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. It was there that his love of words was kindled by the stories of John B. 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.
