Irish Village Mystery Books in Order
Part ofCarlene O'Connor Books in OrderSee all the Irish Village Mystery books by Carlene O'Connor in order, with summaries, series background, and tips on the best place to start in Kilbane.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
12 books
Murder at an Irish Session
by Carlene O'Connor
2026
Pregnant and planning a music and matchmaking festival to help her brother find love, Siobhán O'Sullivan watches renowned matchmaker Liam Noone take the stage. When the lights go out and he is found skewered by an arrow fashioned from a bass bow, she hunts a killer among musicians.
Murder in an Irish Garden
by Carlene O'Connor
2025
As Siobhán studies for her detective exams, her brother Eoin launches his new restaurant and enters Kilbane's Top Garden Contest to draw customers. When a showpiece garden reveals a corpse hidden beneath a golden statue, Siobhán and Macdara must prune a long list of suspects.
Murder at an Irish Chipper
by Carlene O'Connor
2024
Hoping for a quiet seaside honeymoon, Siobhán O'Sullivan and Macdara Flannery instead find the door to a beloved fish and chip shop locked and its owner dead inside. With rival businesses, family feuds, and holidaymakers swirling, their romantic getaway becomes another murder case.
Murder at an Irish Bakery
by Carlene O'Connor
2023
A reality TV baking show descends on Kilbane's beloved flour mill bakery, but when a top contestant is found face down in her own signature pie, Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan must sift through rival bakers and old resentments to catch a killer.
Murder on an Irish Farm
by Carlene O'Connor
2022
On the morning of Siobhán O'Sullivan and Macdara Flannery's wedding, a long hidden skeleton is found in a slurry pit on the farm Macdara secretly bought them, soon followed by a fresh corpse. Their nuptials go on hold while they investigate two tangled deaths.
Murder in an Irish Bookshop
by Carlene O'Connor
2021
A new bookshop in Kilbane hosts an event for resident authors, but after a night of barbed literary rivalries one of the writers is found dead among the shelves. Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan must read between bruised egos and old secrets to solve the case.
Murder in an Irish Cottage
by Carlene O'Connor
2020
Siobhán O'Sullivan and fiancé Macdara answer a desperate call from his cousin and arrive at a remote village cottage to find a blind young woman in shock and her mother dead. Locals blame a fairy curse, but Siobhán is sure a very human murderer is at work.
Murder at an Irish Christmas
by Carlene O'Connor
2020
The O'Sullivans head to West Cork for brother James's Christmas with his fiancée's musical family, but festivities sour when famed conductor Enda Elliot is found crushed beneath a harp. Stranded with new relatives and simmering tensions, Siobhán must find the killer.
Murder in an Irish Pub
by Carlene O'Connor
2019
A high stakes poker tournament brings notorious cardsharp Eamon "Octopus" Foley to Kilbane, but when he is found hanging in a locked pub storeroom, Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan suspects murder rather than suicide and must call a killer's bluff.
Murder in an Irish Churchyard
by Carlene O'Connor
2018
Newly minted Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan faces her first major case when a stranger is found dead aboveground in the Kilbane churchyard. As his American relatives arrive and tensions spike, she and visiting detective Macdara Flannery dig into complicated family roots.
Murder at an Irish Wedding
by Carlene O'Connor
2017
Catering a glamorous model's wedding should be a boon for Naomi's Bistro, but when the original best man turns up dead in the woods and another guest is poisoned, Siobhán O'Sullivan races to clear her beau Macdara after he becomes the prime suspect.
Murder in an Irish Village
by Carlene O'Connor
2016
In Kilbane, twenty two year old Siobhán O'Sullivan runs her late parents' bistro and raises her siblings, until a man is found at one of their tables with hot pink scissors in his chest. With the family under suspicion, she turns reluctant sleuth to save them.
Series background & context
The Irish Village Mystery series is set in Kilbane, a tight knit village in County Cork where everyone knows everyone else, and gossip travels faster than the rain. At the center is Naomi's Bistro, the family café named for Siobhán O'Sullivan's late mother. When the series opens, Siobhán has put college on hold to run the bistro and raise her five younger siblings after their parents are killed in a car crash.
In the first book, Murder in an Irish Village, a stranger is found dead in the bistro with a pair of hot pink barber scissors in his chest, and suspicion falls squarely on the O'Sullivans. Siobhán's determination to clear her family's name turns her into an amateur sleuth, poking her nose into village quarrels, old grudges, and long buried secrets.
As the series unfolds, Siobhán formally joins the garda, becoming Garda O'Sullivan while still juggling family duties and the bistro's steady stream of locals and tourists. Her partnership, both professional and romantic, with fellow officer Macdara Flannery adds another layer to the books, as they argue over theories, share meals with the O'Sullivans, and slowly try to plan a future together around murder investigations.
Each novel drops the pair into a different corner of village life. There are celebrity nuptials that turn deadly in Murder at an Irish Wedding, a body in the graveyard that tests Siobhán's new authority in Murder in an Irish Churchyard, and a poker tournament gone wrong in Murder in an Irish Pub. Later books push beyond Kilbane's streets, sending Siobhán to a supposedly cursed cottage, a Christmas concert in West Cork, a literary event in an eccentric bookshop, and even a reality baking contest at a beloved local bakery.
The more recent entries keep building out that world. A long delayed wedding is disrupted by a skeleton on an old dairy farm in Murder on an Irish Farm. A fish and chip shop on the coast becomes the scene of a suspicious death in Murder at an Irish Chipper. A gardening competition hides a corpse beneath its prizewinning design in Murder in an Irish Garden, while Murder at an Irish Session brings a music and matchmaking festival to Kilbane, with a famed matchmaker struck down in front of a horrified crowd.
Throughout, the tone stays warm and character driven. The O'Sullivan siblings bicker and back each other up, villagers feud over petty slights and deep hurts, and Siobhán tries to balance ambition, romance, and loyalty to home. The murders are serious, but the books lean into humor, food, and community as much as clues.
Readers can pick up almost any installment and follow the mystery, but there is a clear emotional arc as relationships evolve and the younger O'Sullivans grow up. If you enjoy cozy series where a whole village becomes familiar, with an investigator who is as rooted in her community as she is curious about it, Irish Village is a welcoming place to settle in.
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