Death at a Paris Hotel

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       July 1, 2025

 

Author  Verity Bright

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1836188155
Publisher:         Bookouture
Release Date:   30 June 2025  

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Lady Eleanor Swift and the handsome Hugh Seldon have finally made it to Paris, the city of romance for their honeymoon. Ellie is still wondering at being married and enjoying endless time with Hugh, a real luxury as he was always time strapped in his role with Scotland Yard.

Clifford has accompanied them in the role of Secretary to ensure all goes well and look after Gladstone, who had to come along.

They are raising their glasses for a toast in the luxuriously appointed dining room of the Hotel. Ellie looks up to marvel at the ornately stunning class cupola ceiling and wonders at the shadows she sees. Only moments later a man crashes thought the roof and lands on their table. He hands something to her seconds before he dies.

Who is he and what was he doing on the roof become the central questions both Ellie and Hugh ask each other as the Hotel appear to be lax at setting a proper train of action in place, and in the general confusion Ellie is the one held responsible for the ‘murder’. Interestingly Ellie believes the man looks familiar but has no idea why.

Despite their desire to not become involved in the case, because they are on their much-awaited honeymoon, they are reluctantly drawn into the investigation to the point where their lives are in danger and old history becomes the focal point to a series of terrible crimes.

Once again, the team of Verity Bright bring a well-planned and plotted murder mystery to life under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower as Ellie and Hugh along with Clifford struggle to find answers to Death at a Paris Hotel.

Death at a Paris Hotel is book 22 in the Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Series and another fantastically un-put-downable murder mystery, Parisian style.

Vale Laura Tong.