A
Portrait of Death; The Versipellis Mystery Series Book One
In the
quiet English village of Marmis Parva, a weekend house party is organised by a
society hostess and all the top names are invited.
But this
is no ordinary party.
Two men
are savagely murdered during the course of the first evening and a young man,
presumed dead, returns home after two years imprisonment in South Africa
bringing with him proof of treason.
Detective
Chief Inspector Elliott Caine’s long-awaited holiday in the Lake District is
cancelled as he is brought in to investigate the peculiar nature of the
murders. More bodies are discovered and Elliott has to manoeuvre between high
society, Government protocols, and the heinous nature of the crimes if he and his
old friend Detective Sergeant Abernathy Thorne, are to catch the sadistic
killer, and the traitor lurking amongst them.
When
Caine’s past comes back to haunt him, will his judgement be too clouded to
focus on solving the crime?
Will the
Boer spy’s identity be uncovered before they can flee?
How are
these murders connected to another in New York?
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Author
Bio – Rhen
Garland lives in Somerset, England with her folk-singing, book-illustrating husband,
approximately 4000 books, an equal number of ancient movies, and a large flock
of stuffed sheep.
She
enjoys the countryside, peace, and Prosecco and the works of Ngaio Marsh, Glady
Mitchell, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson, Agatha Christie, and Terry
Pratchett.
"I
watch far too many old school murder mystery films, TV series, and 1980s action
movies for it to be considered healthy."
"A
Portrait of Death" is a murder mystery thriller with paranormal touches
set in late Victorian England and is the first book in the Versipellis
Mysteries Series.
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