Black-Irish Setter — Bill Stackhouse

Caitlin (Kate) O'Rourke is not your typical Irish-American lass. At six-one and one-hundred-seventy-eight pounds, with dark skin, raven-black hair, and a nose like an eagle, the former MVP setter/middle blocker on the Italian Pro Volleyball circuit is a has-been in her late 20s, prematurely retired due to a blown-out knee.


Although retirement does not sit well with Kate, she soon finds herself so entangled in other peoples difficulties that she doesn't have time to dwell on her own problems.


Kehough's Irish Pub in Nashville, Tennessee, with its upstairs apartment, is home to Kate, and the pub itself provides employment for her brother Seamus and his wife Mary Grace.

 
File this first book in the series under "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished." After Kate rescues a damsel in distress from a mugger, she gets roped into babysitting the woman until the locks are changed on the woman's house. But when Kate's charge is murdered on her watch, the former Irish step dancer, former star athlete, and now owner of a Nashville Irish pub sets out to find out who did it--and why.