Title:	You Have Gone Too Far
	Author:	Carlene O’Connor
	Published:	October 22 2024, Kensington
	No. of Pages:	368
	Cover Price:	$27.00 Hardcover, $13.26 Kindle

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Readers who have been following bestselling author. Carlene O’Connor’s County Kerry series, will want to pick up the third installment, You’ve Gone Too Far, where the protagonist, Dimpna Wilde, a delightful country veterinarian, finds herself investigating the kidnapping and murders of unmarried pregnant women in the area. One of the women, Shauna, who is deaf, goes to the market to meet another pregnant woman who corresponded with her online, but the woman doesn’t show up and Shauna focuses on working with the family she has promised to give her baby to. Some young boys on bicycles discover the body of one of the missing pregnant women, and one of the boys is kidnapped along with Shauna, and Shauna works to free herself and the boy. All the while strange things are happening in the county and the vets office.

Dimpna is a delightful character, and readers will love her. The supporting characters in the county – Dimpna’s parents, detective boyfriend, and friends – are interesting and seem real. O’Connor captures the culture of the Irish town and it is charming as a backdrop to the suspense filled novel. Her storytelling ability is excellent and readers will find themselves on the edge while reading this novel and enjoying the interactions between the characters.

All told, this novel is a change from O’Connor’s usual cozy novels, but is well written, suspenseful, and fascinating. It is highly recommended, and readers will want to pick up the previous novels to get themselves up to speed on the characters and scenarios that have happened previously.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.