Troubled Deaths is the third in the Inspector Alvarez series by Roderic Jeffries. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 6 1/4 more days.
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https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Deat...dp/B0761V7ZCN/
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“Mr. Jeffries has created a neat plot, inserted a wry twist at the end and has written all this with a good deal of charm” -
Newgate Callendar, New York Times Book Review
Cognac, Mallorca, Murder; He's back.
After escaping from his modest English life, Geoffrey Freeman was now the owner of a seven-million-peseta home, enjoying the expatriate way of life in Mallorca. It's a life of leisure, wine and dining, until Freeman falls suddenly and fatally ill. Cholera is the initial verdict, but when the cause of death is confirmed to be poison, Inspector Alvarez is called upon to investigate the case.
All signs point to the love-sick spinster, Mabel Striggs, who surreptitiously helped Freeman embezzle funds out of England, after which - and in recompense, Freeman had wanted nothing to do with her.
What appears to be a straightforward case is soon blown wide-open as Mabel falls victim to the poison and Alvarez must whittle down a whole host of suspects, not least of all the enchanting Caroline Durrel: the object of Alvarez's hopeless infatuation.
Rife with twists and turns, Troubled Deaths will keep you guessing 'whodunit' till the very end.
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