Murder in the Tuscan Hills

 Murder in the Tuscan Hills

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       February 2, 2025

 

Author  TA Williams

Distributor:      Amazon UK
ISBN:                 978-1835187821
Publisher:         Boldwood Books Ltd
Release Date:   February 2025. Pre order available  

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It is blisteringly hot inn Tuscany; there has been no rain for months and it is coming to the vendemmia. Although the fruit is small on the vines the quality looks like it will be good.

Retired DCI Dan Armstrong is working as a Private Investigator and does on occasion, get co-opted to help the local Gendarmerie with translation and problem solving. A phone call from the local Commissario Virgilo Pisano sees what he thought would be quiet week, turn into a full scale murder enquiry at the Podere dei Santi, the luxury hotel on the way to Montespertoli.

A body has been found on the side of the road, just outside the showrooms of Rockstar Chianti, the vintage produced by the Hotel. It has been apparently run over by a truck, but the autopsy shows it was murder.

It appears the murder could be involved with the Mafia, as three of the guests certainly fit the image of Mafia bosses, other guests have shady pasts and one, Dan’s ex-wife comes as a severe shock!

Two more murders are committed which leaves the Police and Dan wondering who it is, and what is the motives behind such a killing spree as every lead to date has gone nowhere.

TA Williams has captured the very essence of Tuscany and the underworld that is a part of Italian life in Murder in the Tuscan Hills as Dan, Oscar, his very savvy Labrador, and the Gendarmerie struggle to find the killer; a person who is very comfortable with committing murder.

Murder in the Tuscan Hills is the third book in the Armstrong and Oscar Cosy Mystery series which can be read as a standalone, as Williams has taken the time to set the characters well with a little of their backstory.

This well constructed, snappily delivered Murder Mystery series makes it very easy to look forward to the next book.

Crime, Fiction