St. Patrick's Day: 5 great books that celebrate Ireland

5. The Pig Did It, by Joseph Caldwell

This charming mystery features an American tourist who goes to Ireland to grieve a lost love but instead ends up being followed by a pig and dragged into a murder investigation. In her review of "The Pig Did It," Monitor book critic Yvonne Zipp called this story "a fizzy, free-wheeling farce that reads as if it's narrated by Garrison Keillor in a leprechaun suit."

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