The wonderful fourth novel in this enjoyable and entertaining series is availble to pre-order and will be published on 3rd October 2023.
When the St. Sebastian Christmas pageant goes wrong in a big way, Jess and Libby are called in to solve a crime that was eighty years in the making.
The ladies already had their hands full, battling a turkey infestation, a cranky cop, and the usual Christmas chaos when the town’s wealthiest resident turns up dead.
Alfie Nettles loved St. Sebastian, and the town loved him. But after a mysterious inheritance, everything changed, except for one special little person. Carmen Nettles loved her uncle and her pleas for help cannot be ignored.
Jess and Libby take the case, and the questions about Alfie’s death lead to questions about his life. Why did the town’s beloved handyman go into isolation? Why did he inherit, and where did the money come from?
Everyone hopes Alfie will turn up to solve his own murder but in the country’s most haunted hamlet you have to be careful what you wish for. It is St. Sebastian, after all.
The third and final novel in the latest PI investigator series.
Detective Eva Roberts is determined to find her missing client, a retired policeman who was abducted from his own home in the dead of night. Peter Mountjoy was getting close to the heart of a drug smuggling mystery – and as Eva follows in his footsteps, the danger is heading her way…
When a body is found in the Cliff Gardens journalist Gemma Cassidy calls on Dan Bradley for help. The latest murder soon becomes a case for Inspector Rowntree and his team. But when Rowntree discovers that Roberts and Bradley have beaten him to the crime scene, he invites them to join the investigation. Dan soon suspects his motives.
Elsewhere, the temperature is rising… Gemma Cassidy gets closer to Dan as they dig into Rowntree and Martin’s past, looking for skeletons and secrets.
It’s a murky business…
But there is another hand at work, running the show, choosing who lives and who will die.
One Private Eye. One Case. One sackful of trouble. When Jake agrees to take a package across America, he doesn’t know if he’ll live to tell the tale. If the CIA, the Feds and the British Secret Service don’t get him then the mob will. How’s a cowardly private dick going to survive in these bloody times? The Case is a stand-alone pulp noir novel. A wry take on the jaw-dropping violent side of private investigator life by Leopold Borstinski, writer of the six-book Lagotti Family series. Grab your copy today. Author’s WarningThis stand-alone pulp fiction novel flits around Jake’s life weaving a tale which spreads from the 1940s to the 1990s as he tries to piece together the clues to discover what is so valuable that government agencies and organized criminals might want to get their hands on a crummy old case. Before the story is over, Jake witnesses incest, robbery, kidnapping, torture and murder: a typical day in the life of a private dick. Contains violence, some profanity and surprisingly few scenes of a sexual nature.
In the third instalment of this classic British crime series, the return of an old friend and the arrival of a new cousin spell yet more danger for the Lancefield family of Penwithen.
Five months have passed since revenge led to murder at Salvation Hall, home of the reclusive Lancefield family, and no one – least of all the victim’s family – expected to see the killer walk free. So, when news of the unwelcome verdict reaches the Cornish village of Penwithen, DCI Ennor Price can only brace himself and wait for the fallout.
Five hundred miles away in Edinburgh, the discovery of a young woman’s body behind an elegant Georgian town house looks like a murder without a motive to DCI Alyson Grant, until the chance sighting of a van leaving the crime scene offers her the slimmest of slim possibilities. But when that van turns up in Cornwall, and Grant asks Price for help to trace the driver, she isn’t prepared for his response.
Because Price doesn’t agree that the murder lacked a motive, any more than he thinks that the murderer will stop at one victim.
But is he right to think he can draw out the killer without overplaying his hand? Or will he risk unleashing a tragedy from which the Lancefield family – and Price himself – might never recover?
Murdering a city guard is a treasonous act, punishable by death.
And when Laurel Gunderson finds herself in that exact situation, she knows a quick death would be a mercy. For if the King of Axtria learned of the existence of a halfling-elf, there would be no telling what atrocity he might inflict upon her.
One action, one job, throws Laurel’s life into utter turmoil. The careful choices made throughout her life to remain a secret are at risk. There is only one option. Laurel and her closest confidant, Cole, choose to flee for their lives.
But when the open road cannot offer Laurel and Cole the sanctuary they need, they’re presented with an offer neither of them knew existed. A proposal from Laurel’s ex-lover.
A resistance is growing, gathering in the shadows across Axtria, working to undo the laws laid down. The aim is to return Axtria to a place of liberty. Something Laurel has dreamed of all her life.
Taking a stand with those who oppose Eberlim, Laurel and Cole face their greatest challenges yet. Protecting those who cannot defend themselves. Risking it all for a chance of freedom. With her life on the line, can Laurel resist the man she’s never stopped loving, to continue living a life of fear and secrets or will her heart win out?
Without risk, there is no reward.
Without the resistance, there is no future.
Another wonderful and humorous instalment in the Guesthouse on the Green series as Mammy and Moira travel Vietnam.
I love the series and can't wait for book four!
A quick but emotional read - reading about the cruelty to the dog was heartbreaking but this was a lovely tale of the love and healing that animals can bring to our lives.
I would have given five stars but for the missed typos - a few t...
I get the impression that this could be a nice story but I've had to give up after forcing myself to go as far as 15% of the way through. If this novel has ever been near a remotely professional editor then the author was conned.
Chapte...
Another very enjoyable story but with a few niggles, hence the four stars rather than five. Maybe it's because I was tired but the editing issues grated on me more than in the first story and, do people really generally believe that 'ear...
