Cara’s in the middle of organising an international convention for the high intelligence group Irish Mensa. 'Please congratulate Clare O'Beara for me for her clever short, short story 'London Calling.' I appreciate that she treated Arkady kindly, taking his age into consideration, and managed to cross the finish line with a different sort of twist.'Ĭara Cassidy, a Dublin tree surgeon, is having a tough May weekend. 1 Bestselling author of MURDER AGAINST THE CLOCK and MURDER AT IRISH MENSA.Ĭlare O'Beara won the Arkady Renko short story competition held by Simon & Schuster in 2014 and judged by Martin Cruz Smith.

Soon afterwards the girl follows the dead woman’s cat into its former home – with explosive consequences.īy the Amazon No. Ricky reappears at Cara’s New Year’s Eve party, having posed as a homeless man to arrest heroin dealers. Cara, a tree surgeon, makes enquiries as she lops trees on Ailesbury Road, staffs the Young Scientists Exhibition and chairs Irish Mensa. First he asks Mike’s girlfriend Cara Cassidy to investigate the apparently accidental death of an elderly music teacher, Audrey Gregory, in the expensive embassy belt of Dublin Four. In autumn his Garda detective friend Ricky Norton disappears undercover. Mike Fraser, a member of the high IQ group Mensa, is renting a central Dublin flat and doing pressured computer work. The MacGuyver for the Hugo Awards at Worldcon Dublin 2019. Judged by Martin Cruz Smith.Ģ013 - Winner, Print Journalism, Ireland's National Media Awards. A Pony For Quarantine was nominated for Children’s Multicultural Book Day by US educational site Wise Owl Factory A Dog For Lockdown was chosen Best Middle Grade Book of 2020 by author/ reviewer Jemima Pett.Ĭlare independently publishes crime, science fiction and romance, and No.1 Best Selling Young Adult books she works to make her books Carbon Neutral.Ģ021 - Winner, Blog Of The Year, National Student Media Awards.Ģ021 - Shortlisted, EPA Award for Journalism Relating to The Environment.Ģ020 - Second, Dublin Business School Create Contest.Ģ014 - Winner, Arkady Renko Short Story Contest: Simon & Schuster. She edits Dublin Business School’s Inside DBS blog and Sustainable College blog.ĭuring 2020 Clare created the Irish Lockdown series. Her credits include Writing.ie, The, Mensa Magazine and Mensa International Journal. She has served on the Royal Dublin Society’s Forestry and the Environment Committee.Ĭlare is an award-winning writer, and award-winning blogger, whose journalism work has been published in more than thirty countries. She has qualified in multimedia journalism and ecology, and writes on environmental themes. Clare O’Beara is a tree surgeon and expert witness, and a former national standard showjumper.

Silks and Sins by Clare O'Beara