The Summer House is a non-series title by Christobel Kent, whose short Sandro Cellini series I've enjoyed. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, and I may give it a try.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMCC2JP
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-summer-house-26
Spoiler:
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Rose Fell's friends think she's taking a big risk when she leaves the security of home and career to move to the beautiful but isolated village of Grosso, near Genoa. But after a year of emotional turmoil Rose no longer has any ties back home, and she relishes the challenges of a new start.
Making a home, however, in the ravishing, haunted landscape of Italy's Riviera coast turns our to be lonelier than Rose had anticipated. And it is only when she is asked to write a profile on one of her reclusive neighbours, the once-glamorous film star Elvira Vitale, that Rose feels her new life is really beginning.
But when a young girl's body is found on the local beach, and the following day Elvira's hard-working cleaner, Ania, goes missing, Rose finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation that threatens the idyll she has worked so hard to establish.
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