BRAND NEW instalment in the page-turning Armstrong &
Oscar cozy mystery series, this time in the snowy Italian Alps.
A festive gathering...
Private investigator Dan Armstrong, accompanied by his wife
and his canine sidekick, Oscar, are spending the days before Christmas in a
luxurious Alpine chalet tucked away in a hidden valley. It should be the
perfect escape, except the owner is in fear for his life.
A house full of secrets...
Amid perfect winter wonderland scenery, the more Dan
discovers about his host and the other guests, he realises that all is not as
it seems. What should be a happy family party is riddled with rancour, mistrust
and hatred.
A killer in the snow?
Then the snow falls – fast and heavy – and within moments,
someone is dead. Accident, suicide, or murder? As the snow closes in, Dan has
to work out if he's looking for a killer, or whether he and Oscar are barking
up the wrong tree.
My Thoughts
Dan and Oscar find themselves in a remote part of the Italian Alps and, predictably, it is not long before death comes a-knocking. What started as an easy pre-Christmas job turns into a murder enquiry. In a closed room scenario, Dan has to try to find out who in the family and guests could be responsible. Of course there are several suspects who would have the motivation. Oscar is as indispensable as ever and you always have to pay attention to his reactions towards people and events . He can sniff out a wrong 'un!
In this beautiful, luxurious setting, family ties are shown to be complicated and Dan has a difficult decision to make towards the end of the story. This is a perfect read for the months before Christmas before the festivities become huge. Wealth and power are powerful motivations but make for an intriguing situation in which to unravel a murder mystery.
In short: a clihhhanger of a snowy read
About the Author
I’m a man. And a pretty old man as well. I studied
languages at Nottingham University a long time ago and then lived and worked in
France and Switzerland before going to work in Italy for seven years. My
Italian wife and I then came back to the UK with our little daughter (now
long-since grown up) where I ran a big English language school for many years.
We now live in a sleepy little village in Devonshire. I’ve been writing almost
all my life but it was only 13 years ago that I finally managed to find a publisher
who liked my work enough to offer me my first contract.
I started off writing romances but after 28 of
them, I knew I wanted to try something different, and so the first of the
Armstrong and Oscar cozy mysteries, Murder in Tuscany, was born three years
ago. I’ve been having a lot of fun ever since getting to know the dynamic duo
(and introducing them to people all over the world). These books are cosy crime
[a genre I didn't even know existed when I started writing them). They are
murder mysteries, but not gory, over-violent stuff, but stories designed to exercise
the brain of the reader and to put a smile on their face. Maybe it’s because
there are so many horrible things happening in the world today that I feel I
need to do my best to provide something to cheer my readers up. My books
provide escapism to some gorgeous locations all over my beloved Italy.
Thanks to T A Williams, Boldwood Books, and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the event.
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