Carlene O’Connor: Some of Us Are Looking
County Kerry #2
The follow up to O’Connor’s County Kerry series debut, No Strangers Here, avoids any tinge of sophomore slump. Her thoughtful, well plotted, richly charactered series is set in tiny Dingle, Ireland. The series heroine, Dimpna Wilde, is a vet whose work insinuates itself into the plots in the best possible way. Not only does her work temper some of the gruesomeness O’Connor writes about, it also grounds Dimpna in the community. As the book opens she’s been called to the scene of a hit and run – there’s a baby fox trapped under the body, and the mother fox is giving all the emergency workers on the scene a death stare.