You Have Gone Too Far is the 3rd in the series, yet you can read it as a stand alone. You do see some of the other characters from the previous book. Yet each book is different story.
Pregnant woman go missing, and woman turn up dead.
Seems like Dimpna literally runs into trouble, without wanting to.
When reading you try and figure out who the bad guys are. Then when the book is winding down and the pieces fall into place. You're shocked because it wasn't who you thought it was.
All the characters have their own quirks. Those quirks is what brings mysteries together.

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.

I have read and enjoyed all of Carlene O’Connor’s Irish Village Mysteries: the setting, characters and plots.
This latest work is startlingly not only confusingly mysterious, but also dark and shocking.
The narrative begins with a very strange letter to “My darlings”, written by someone named by “One Who Has Not Forgotten”, who seems to be “mothering” 2 pregnant women who are on an incomprehensible, concerning email interchange to meet each other.
Circumstances don’t allow that to happen and the narrative twists and turns in the book throughout the never-ending chapters are a mix of murders, threats, veterinarians, and a cult community with names like Eternal Mist, Grand Ruler and The Shephard.
Brutality and confusion continues to occur as many others are caught up in monstrous actions which I, the reader, found overwhelmingly disturbing.
I really don’t know after the Irish Village collection what Carlene O’Connor entended the reader to learn or feel.
I am sorry to say: You have gone too far
Carlene O’Connor

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This atmospheric tale of terror and fear in rural Ireland brings Veterinarian Dimpna Wilde to the limit. It is not herself nor her father with dementia who are in deep trouble, but a neighborhood youngster and an unknown pregnant young woman. DI Cormac O’Brien and DS Barbara Neely are on the job and the evidence points to a repeat of a disturbing case from twenty years ago, when a demented charismatic leader calling himself the Shepherd, lured poor pregnant girls into his cult. Though he’d been put away, they learn that the Shepherd has recently been released from prison and their worst fears seem realized. Now the investigations become even more intense as each hour is more frightening.
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“You Have Gone Too Far” by Carlene O’Connor it's the 3rd instalment in the County Kerry Series, grapples with death, friendships, and secrets…
Some fear a mysterious cult from 30 years ago could be connected to the disappearance of a young pregnant woman and small boy…

The story is character-driven and also very descriptive you feel like you are right there in Dingle, Ireland. I’m a huge fan of the authors other mystery series set in Ireland , but her more gritty and suspenseful mystery novels are becoming my favorite.

The mystery is interesting and had lots of twists which kept me guessing. With so many suspects to follow I was surprised I guessed just before it was revealed.

I highly recommend this book to all my Irish Mystery loving friends.

I requested and received an Advanced Readers Copy from the publisher and Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.