Murder in Venice
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley November 5, 2025
Author TA Williams
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 9781837031276
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Release Date: November 3, 2025
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Dan Armstrong and Oscar of The Armstrong and Oscar series beloved of Cozy crime thriller readers are back in their latest adventure this time set in Venice, a City on Dan’s list of places still to visit in Murder in Venice.
After a relatively straight forward investigation finishes Dan receives a phone call from Selena Gardener, a famous Hollywood icon, a woman he had help two years previously when he had collaborated with the local police to catch a delusion man out to kill her.
She is asking him to go to Venice to assist her long-time friend, another well-known, world-famous actress Alice Graceland, stage a Murder Mystery party on her private island Isola dei Cigni known or the Swan’s Nest, just near the Lido.
Dan accepts the assignment, agreeing to take Oscar with him but not everything goes as planned. Alice Graceland has created the event to even the score against people in the industry who have tried to destroy or damage her career over the years.
She is writing her memoir, which it is a tell all which for most of the invited guests could spell the end of their career. She explains to Dan why she is hosting the party and while he considers it risky, feels that it should be safe enough, that is until it is not, and murder is committed; for real.
Any one of the guests could be the suspect, along with Mary Stevenson, Alice’s PA who seems to have no real purpose other than to help wherever and whenever needed.
As Dan, aided by Oscar, help the local Police led by Guilia Trevisan sift through the wreckage of a weekend event that has turned dark and terrifying, a further intrigue becomes apparent involving Mary Stevenson and Alice Graceland.
Once again TA Williams has created an intriguing crime with Murder in Venice where any one of the guests are capable of murder with a plot line designed to tantalise the detective in us all.
Recommended reading for a lazy Sunday afternoon at home on the couch.