The Big Sugar

A grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881 After the harrowing events that entangled her in Deadwood, Brigid Reardon just wants to move west and get on with her new life in America. But shortly after traveling to Cheyenne to join her brother Seamus, she finds herself caught up in another deadly mysterybeginning with her discovery of a neighbors body on the plains near their homes. Was Ella murdered? Are either of the two men in Ellas life responsible? With Seamus away on a cattle drive, her friend Padraic possibly succumbing to a locals charms, and the sheriff seemingly satisfied with Ellas fate, it falls to Brigid to investigate what really happened, which puts her in the crosshairs of one of Cheyennes cattle barons, called big sugars in these parts. All she really wants is something better than a crumbling, soddy homestead on the desolate plains of Wyomingand maybe, just maybe, she wants Padraicbut life, it seems, has other plans: this young immigrant from Ireland is going to be a detective on the western frontier of 1880s America, even if it kills her. Loosely based on the true story of Ellen Watson in Cheyenne in 1889, The Big Sugar continues the adventure begun in Mary Logues celebrated mystery The Streel, which introduced a gritty, charming, clever protagonist (Kirkus Reviews). With a faultless sense of history, a keen eye for suspense, and a poets way with prose, Mary Logue all but guarantees that readers, like Brigid, will find the mystery at the heart of The Big Sugar downright irresistible.