Night of the Blackbird

It's nice when romance authors do research, but sometimes I'm left with the feeling that they think that they must use it all in a single book. That happens here. Great characters, good plot, then - we keep getting sermons and history lessons. I agree with the author's views on the Irish situation, but I was looking for entertainment, not a seminar.

From BackCover:
Moira Kelly has come home to Boston to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with family and friends. The last thing she expects to find in the family pub is the undercurrent of danger as talk turns to politics. But all too quickly Moira finds herself struggling with the anger of her old flame, Dan O'Hara, and the convictions of her new love, Michael McLean. Torn between them, she becomes a pawn in a conspiracy that promises to bring the violence and hatred of a different time and place to her own backyard.

This passionate, close-knit community is harboring a traitor. And as the chilling acts of evil unfold around her, Moira must face the fact that a generation of time is not long enough to soften revenge.