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Old 05-16-2017, 06:13 PM   #633
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Unseemly End is the sixth in the Inspector Alvarez by Roderic Jeffries. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 6 more days. I'm glad to see that Endeavour Press seems to have picked up the early Inspector Alvarez titles - I've been wanting to try that series for a while, and Endeavour usually rotates titles through Countdown, and also they're usually available through KU.

Unfortunately (if I like the series) rights to later titles seem to be with Macmillan and/or Severn House and priced at $8.99 and up - absurd for backlist.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Unseemly-Insp...dp/B06Y1L3F7C/

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Dolly Lund – widow of a scrap metal merchant and thrower of flauntingly vulgar parties – may be one of the wealthiest women on Mallorca. But she certainly isn’t the most popular…

When Dolly unexpectedly dies after a night of overindulgence at one of her extravaganzas, few on the island shed a tear.

Her young lover Mark Erington inherits virtually everything and that’s the end of that.

Or it would it have been, if the doctor hadn’t suggested that Seņora Lund may not have died naturally, suddenly piling a murder case on Inspector Alvarez’s desk.

The principal beneficiary becomes the number one suspect.

Only he happened to have been in England on the night of her party, and has an alibi to prove it.

As the summer heat begins to sap all remaining dregs of energy from the island, Alvarez’s efforts to trace Erington’s movements seem nothing but a waste of time.

Like speculating why Dolly had a left a battered cigarette case to a young man she hardly knew.

And why her Spanish gardener had it in for her.

Or why her daughter’s pleas for financial help had been ignored.

Weaving between locals and holidaymakers alike, the inspector finds plenty to interest him in the questionable lives and habits of the English colony on Mallorca.

But with another body thrown into the mix, unearthing island gossip is not enough. Will he unearth the island murderer?

Unseemly End is an engrossing thriller filled with mystery and suspense.
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