Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles – Thomas Lennon

If you don’t know Tom Lennon, he played Lieutenant Jim Dangle on Reno 911, which should tell you what level of humor he’s going for here, except this is also a young reader’s level book, so it’s the fairly clean version of that level of humor.

Fourteen year old Ronan Boyle is a intern with the Irish garda (police) who gets recruited into their supernatural division because he happens to be the skinniest person on staff at a very important moment. It turns out that the supernatural realm of Tir Na Nog exists alongside the regular world, and there’s a Special Unit of the Garda in charge of dealing with their incursions.

It’s definitely fun – there’s a lot of terrible leprechaun humor. It is pitched to grades 4-7, so that’s the tone that’s set, but I really enjoyed it.