The major characters in the book all have a degree of roundness, but with Gethsemane and Eamon, we truly feel that we know the pair.
The pair banter back and forth, both in fun and in anger, and their witticisms are a lot of fun to read.
There is a recent trend of cozy mystery books that feature a single ghost visible to just one individual, but this book gives a unique relationship to Gethsemane and Eamon. But doing so is not free of danger to herself. Trying hard to get Detective O’Reilly, the man in charge of the new cold-case division, to reopen the case, she digs into the world of 25 years earlier and those who knew Eamon and Orla. Initially hesitant about getting involved in this investigation, Gethsemane gradually gets more and more deeply immersed in the case. She is the first person to be able to see and hear him, so he prevails upon her to prove his innocence, of both murder and suicide. But what Gethsemane does not know is that the house comes with the ghost of Eamon McCarthy. Gethsemane stays at the home of Eamon McCarthy, the greatest composer of the late 20th century and her personal inspiration in music, who was known to have killed his wife, the great poet Orla, by pushing her off a cliff, and then killed himself a week later. Thus, stranded and too proud to go home and admit her defeat, Gethsemane takes on a job directing the orchestra of a boys’ school, but the catch is that their major competition is in six weeks, and the school expects her to do miracles and turn this miserable group into the best in the competition. Her suitcase has been stolen, after the job as assistant conductor of the Cork Philharmonic for which she spent all her money to get to is suddenly given to the mistress of the music director.
Gethsemane Brown has ended up, broke and with no possessions. Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon takes place in Ireland, where Dr.
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