A tragic accident?
When Italy’s greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the police initially rule his death a tragic accident or suicide. But his elderly mother, Violetta, believes this to be poppycock! Her son was a brilliant driver and had too much to live for. She suspects foul play and turns to Private Investigator, Dan Armstrong to discover the truth.
A cheating spouse?
So Dan and Oscar travel to Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet, to find out what really happened.
There Dan discovers Rodolfo’s private life could have come straight out of a Shakespeare play.
Although now happily married, Rodolfo was a man with a reputation to rival Casanova, his past strewn with heartbroken women. Could his death have been a star-crossed lover determined to get revenge?
A family feud?
Or does the truth lie much closer to home? With his large inheritance still to be settled, the motive for Rodolfo’s murder could simply be greed. As Dan searches for suspects while staying at the Argento Opera Academy (where people randomly launch into operatic arias.) life for Dan is
complicated by the fact that Oscar has a habit of joining in with the singing…
Can Dan solve the case before he and his tone-deaf dog get thrown out?
I’ve written all sorts: thrillers, historical novels, short stories and now I’m enjoying myself hugely writing romance and whodunnits. Romantic comedies are what we all need from time to time. Life isn’t always very fair. It isn’t always a lot of fun, but when it is, we need to embrace it. Murder mystery is all very well, but it needs to put a smile on your face, so that’s why I like to inject some humour.
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My thoughts: I love this cover, with Oscar playing a canine Romeo in his smart yellow bow tie!
This time we’re in Verona, where Dan and Anna (and Oscar) are invited to stay at the Argento Operatic Academy while investigating the death of opera singer Rodolfo, whose family own the academy. He crashed his car into a tree, speeding, but his mother believes the police are wrong in assuming it was suicide or a tragic accident.
Dan asks a lot of questions and Oscar gets a girlfriend! All of his questions do seem to be leading to murder, and he’s got plenty of suspects to rule out, from family members, Rodolfo’s agent, staff at the Academy, various locals the singer either seduced or their husbands, it’s a lot to sort through.
Dan works with the local police to find out who the killer was and also why they killed Rodolpho. It almost leads to another death, and things get a bit intense, but thankfully things work themselves out. Though Oscar’s romance with fellow Labrador Elektra has yet to be resolved.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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