The luck of the Irish runs out for a professional poker player in this mystery set in County Cork that will ';will leave cozy readers well satisfied' (Publishers Weekly). A poker tournament in the small village of Kilbane in County Cork is drawing players from across the country, but none more famous than Eamon Foley. A tinker out of Dublin, he's called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is found at the end of a rope, swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack's pub, it's time for the garda to take matters into their own hands. Detective Sargent Macdara Flannery would lay odds it's a simple suicideafter all, there's a note and the room was locked. But officer Siobhn O'Sullivan suspects foul play, as does Foley's very pregnant widow. Soon it's up to Siobhn to call a killer's bluff, but if she doesn't play her cards right, she may be the next one taken out of the game.