Brilliant 1930s Cosy Crime – A Death in Venice by Verity Bright

Stunning views across the Grand Canal and a hotel suite fit for royalty… Lady Eleanor Swift is having a jolly good time on her Italian vacation, until a gondola ride is cut murderously short!

My Review:

Lady Eleanor Swift, her butler and ladies, too,
Are enjoying their Italian vacation with lots to see and do!
A gondola ride through the canals should be charming
But seeing a killer strike is definitely alarming!

Rival Venetian families seem to be involved somehow
Is their feud being reignited now?
A story filled with intrigue and danger, too,
With thwarting a romance also running through.

Family heirlooms seem key to the case
Where history and mystery also take up space.
Can Clifford and Eleanor help solve the crime
Without endangering themselves this time?

If you enjoy historical cosy crime give this book a read,
I really enjoyed it and hope it is one you also need!
For my copy of this book I say a huge thank you
As I share with you my honest review.

Synopsis:

1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has been on a grand tour around Italy for a month with her butler Clifford. Finally arriving in Venice, she’s thrilled to be attending the famous carnival: all that’s needed is the perfect bejewelled costume for her faithful bulldog, Gladstone. But on her first gondola ride to take in the sights, a passenger collapses into the canal with a knife sticking out of his back.

Eleanor saw an argument break out between the gondolier and the victim, Councillor Benetto Vendelini, and it turns out they’re rivals from the city’s two great families. Vendelini’s murder is sure to reignite their centuries-long feud. While attending a glitzy ball that night, Eleanor learns of a plot to steal a precious family heirloom from the Vendelini household. Is the stolen item the key to solving this baffling murder?

In this floating city of tiny winding alleyways, Eleanor traces the missing heirloom to an antiques dealer in a far-flung corner of town. But when her handbag is snatched by a cloaked thief, she realises the murderer is dangerously close. Can Eleanor unmask this most cunning of killers, before she joins the other victim at the bottom of the Grand Canal?

An utterly gripping historical murder mystery set in Italy, full of intrigue and charming characters. Fans of T.E. Kinsey, Agatha Christie and Catherine Coles will be totally hooked by A Death in Venice!

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Author Bio:

Verity Bright is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing partnership that has spanned a quarter of a century. Starting out writing high-end travel articles and books, they published everything from self-improvement to humour, before embarking on their first historical mystery. They are the authors of the fabulous Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in the 1920s.

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