LITTLE GREEN MAN IN IRELAND
A Sydney Reardon Mystery

      “Sydney Reardon had been a well-known actress on Broadway. But that was ten years ago and after the sudden death of her producer/husband she felt “too old to be an ingénue and not talented enough to be a leading lady.” Reardon turned to decorating in London. She was enjoying a glamorous fast-paced life and when her beautiful young cousin Kimberleigh Brennan comes for a visit they go off to Ireland with suave art exporter Ian Hardwicke and his critic friend Henry James. But the anticipated fun weekend turns terrifying when they become involved with a little green man, and theft, smuggling, a gangster—and murder. Smoothly written and absolutely engaging from first page to last, Mary Branham’s ‘Little Green Man In Ireland’ is a mystery buff’s delight.”
      —Midwest Book Review
     
     
            “In this lightweight confection, actress-turned-decorator Sydney Reardon shows her visiting niece, Kim Brennan, around London and Dublin. Sydney’s friend Ian Hardwicke, an art exporter, hopes to trick Kim into carrying a suspicious package back to the States. Pub crawling, shopping and tourism so absorb Sydney and Kim that they don’t connect Ian to the murder of a man who had bothered him on the street. When Kim boards her New York-bound plane, a gangster friend of Sydney’s switches packages while the easily duped decorator goes home to face a murder attempt. With its wide-eyed heroines and suave villains explaining the plot twists to each other, this caper speeds along with so little friction that reading it feels like fast-forwarding through a video.”
      —Publishers Weekly