A Bitter Murder in a Mild Climate: An Inspector Rudolph Riley

A Bitter Murder in a Mild Climate: An Inspector Rudolph Riley Mystery

Rudolph Riley is back in the fourth instalment of the murder mystery series, and this time heâ€™s been sent by the powers that be, to an island off the Devon coast for a spot of management training.
Unfortunately, heâ€™s no sooner begun the course when two of the participants are found brutally murderedâ€¦ but thatâ€™s just the start of his problems.
Cut off from the mainland, the list of suspects, which by default includes himself, is relatively small in number, but rather than make his job easier, all it appears to do is cast a longer shadow over everyone who was on the island, especially when it comes to light that nobody actually had a good word to say about the victims.
Adding to his woes and unbeknown to Riley, the family of the murdered men have long since been cursed by a sacred oath, sworn to the goddess Adrestia, by a young gypsy maiden, who was abandoned on the moor, after being defiled by a vile, ruthless ancestor of the same familyâ€¦
â€œPlace upon this man and all who follow in his line, an eternal curse.
Upon their souls I wish torment and suffering, leave their hearts dark and turn their love to poison.
No matter how long it may take, destroy that which he and his seed desires.â€

Away from the island, and left in charge during Rileyâ€™s enforced absence, Sergeant Thomas meanwhile decides that his colleague should investigate the apparent innocuous and unrelated crimes of an abandoned car and a hit and run accident on the moors above the town, whilst he gets to grips with Rileyâ€™s long overdue crime statistics.
Fate though has other ideas, when the victim of the hit and run dies and the investigation takes a more sinister turn, following the discovery of another brutally slain member of the same family, which itself might provide a possible link to all the other incidents.
When the family of the first two victims are unable to provide appropriate answers to the simplest of questions, and the wife of the hit and run victim turns out to be a gypsy queen with a blood oath and a score of her own to settle, the result is one where Riley has more corpses than he has answers. But if thatâ€™s not sufficient to cause him sleepless nights, one of the female suspects turns out to have a past that might just be about to catch up with her, leaving Riley and those closest to her in mortal danger.
Never one to be outdone, Dollyâ€¦ Rileyâ€™s belligerent foul-mouthed parrot and now the proud mother of two offspring, keeps a keen eye on events at home, from the builders renovating the old dairy, to the more nefarious visitors, who seem intent on adding to Rileyâ€™s woes and bringing death to those at Hambleton Farmâ€¦ but the ethereal soul of Mary Black, who appears to materialise whenever Riley or the farm are in danger, has the final say in who lives and who joins her in the spirit world.

From the rugged isolation of the Devon Coastline with its myriad of bays and islands, to the sweeping vistas of the moorland above Fleetmouth, the investigations run their separate courses, occasionally colliding and connecting, but always supplying another mystery around the next dark corner, until finally Riley reaches a decision that stuns everyoneâ€¦
â€˜Hereâ€™s looking at you kid.â€™
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-08-21
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-08-21
Format	Kindle eBook

A Bitter Murder in a Mild Climate: An Inspector Rudolph Riley Mystery

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