Death
in the Sound; The Versipellis Mystery Series Book Two.
The year
is 1900, responding to a desperate plea from an old friend, Elliott, Giselle,
and Thorne, accompanied by Veronique the Labrador, travel from England to New
Zealand to unravel a new and complex mystery.
For his
daughter’s twenty first birthday, Millionaire philanthropist Octavius Damant
orchestrates a weekend party aboard the Taniwha, a luxurious paddle steamer
moored in the primordial and isolated landscape of Milford Sound.
Several
high society guests are invited to their remote home for the celebrations; Sir
Wesley Eade, society lawyer and his beautiful but icy mistress Lady Leonora
Carlton-Cayce, Dona Carla Riva, a flamboyant Brazilian dancer, and Carolyn
Nolloth, O.D’s estranged sister-in-law who has a great love of other people’s
money.
But O.D
is the subject of persecution; a series of anonymous letters accuse him of past
crimes and threaten the life of his daughter unless he gives in to their
creator’s poisonous demands.
Elliott,
Giselle, and Thorne discover the odds stacked against them when an unforeseen
murder is committed, and they find themselves trapped aboard the Taniwha with a
killer who will seemingly stop at nothing to achieve their ends.
As the
body count rises, they must unravel the clues and piece together a devilish
jigsaw that includes blackmail, extortion, desire, and the reappearance of the
fabulous Larkspur Diamond, a gemstone with a past as murky and blood soaked as
that of the relentless killer on board.
Set in the
late Victorian era, with a touch of the odd, and a twist of the macabre, “Death
in the Sound” continues the crime solving, paranormal escapades of Elliott
Caine, Giselle Du’Lac, and Abernathy Thorne.
Book One,
“A Portrait of Death” was released in 2018.
Purchase Links:
Paperback
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1674868367
Amazon.com - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082Q39R3H
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 collection
of passive-aggressive Tomtes.
She
enjoys the countryside, peace, and Prosecco and the works of Ngaio Marsh, Glady
Mitchell, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson, Agatha Christie, Simon R Green, 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."
"Death
in the Sound" is a murder mystery thriller with paranormal touches set in
late Victorian England and is the second book in the Versipellis Mysteries
Series, book one “A Portrait of Death” was released in 2018.
Social
Media Links – https://www.facebook.com/RhenGarlandMysteries
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