Con Lehane’s third bartender Brian McNulty mystery, Death at the Old Hotel, was published in June 2007. The first in the series, Beware the Solitary Drinker, a 2002 Publisher’s Weekly Best Mystery, was reissued in paperback in May 2008. “Lehane’s mysteries about a genial Irish-American bartender … are as cruelly charming as those Irish saloon storytellers who make sure you’re laughing before they flatten you with the sad stories of their lives,” wrote Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times.
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