I love reading books with the setting in places like Ireland as well as reading mysteries. So I had to read Carla Neggers' novel HARBOR ISLAND. This is my first time reading one of her novels which is part of her Sharpe and Donovan series. I must say it will not disappoint you. The whole novel is not set in Ireland of course but in other places such as Maine and Massachusetts covering several characters' paths that carefully connects them all together.

Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are both FBI agents who are also engaged working this case involving several art heists that first started back in Ireland 10 years ago. Emma's grandfather, Wendell Sharpe, who use to be an art detective had worked on the cases. Now it is up to Emma and Colin to get to the bottom of who is behind these thefts as well as who murdered a woman who is somehow linked to the case. Emma finds her body after receiving a call from this woman who wanted to meet.

This is a great mystery novel to read even if it is your first on this series. I am usually reading novels with more suspense but felt that HARBOR ISLAND by Carla Neggers had a great storyline. At the very beginning, it starts out with Emma going to meet a mystery woman who called her. Then Emma finds her dead at their meeting place. With a beginning like that, you are intrigued to finish the book to find out who did it.

HARBOR ISLAND by Carla Neggers is a great novel with just enough of romance in it that it does not take away from the mystery of the storyline itself.