A Death in Venice
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley March 30, 2024
Author Verity Bright
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 978-1835255360
Publisher: Bookouture
Release Date: March 2024
Website: https://www.amazon.com
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A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book 17
Lady Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Swift is taking a holiday in Europe arriving in Venice at Carnival time; she has not only bought along Gladstone and Tompkins but the entire staff, overseen by the absolutely loyal and almost unshakable Clifford. Hugh, due to the pressure of work, has remained in England.
Ellie is finding Venice amazing, overwhelming and charming, but when she accidently bumps into a young lady, sending her handbag flying, the contents strewn over the cobbled paving, she is mortified.
Helping pick up the contents she chats with the young woman who replies in a very enigmatic style, before quietly disappearing in the crowd, but just before she completely vanishes, Ellie realises there is an item left behind, that of a beautifully crafted Venetian glass heart.
And so begins the latest and to date most intriguing adventure to involve Ellie and Clifford, as they discover in the most horrific way possible, that Eleanor has landed herself in a decades long feud between two powerful families, with someone out to destroy the fragile truce, or anyone and anything that gets in their way.
A Gondola ride later that day sees Ellie and Clifford witness to very disturbing incident on the canal resulting in the death of a City official, also a member of one of the families. When her hotel room is ransacked, with nothing taken, a second murder occurs, that of the Gondolier ferrying the murdered man, Ellie’s instinct for solving mysteries sees her begins to wonder what is really going on.
Verity Bright has captured the magic of Venice, the myriad of winding canals and narrow lanes that make up the City, the centuries old beauty of the buildings and the immense pride the Venetian’s have in their City built on nothing but timber piles, in the fast pace murder mystery, A Death In Venice that pushes both Ellie and Clifford into territory never faced before, as they struggle to survive against a killer who really means business.
A Death In Venice would have to be considered as the best yet from Verity Bright. What will Lady Eleanor Swift and the indomitable Clifford get up to next. I for one can’t wait to find out!