Description
An Autumnal Sunday morning, a hungover jogger stumbles across a dead body, covered in blood, in Barnes Old Common Cemetery, a long-abandoned Gothic graveyard frequented by druggies and drunkards.The victim has spent the summer working in Italy for the wealthy Rivetti family, who appear have something to hide, as do his bosses at the high-end Forum Tutorial Agency. And, why are his old friends, who he'd been partying with the night before, quite so reticent when questioned? Enter D I Garibaldi, the Met's only non-driving, country music loving detective. His first step, to unravel the complex workings of the private tuition company, the Forum Agency.
The second DI Garibaldi Novel. Private tutoring is booming, and someone's making a killing. Cozy Crime at its best
About the Author
After graduating from Oxford, Bernard O'Keeffe taught English for many years before turning to crime writing. 'The Final Round', the first DI Garibaldi novel, was published in 2021. 'Private Lessons' was published in 2023 and the third in the series, 'Every Trick in the Book', is out in February 2024. He sees Garibaldi as 'the bastard son of Morse and Montalbano' and admits to sharing some characteristics with his fictional detective, most notably Irish-Italian ancestry, an inability to drive, a love of country music and possession of a QPR season ticket.
Reviews
A new detective hero; charismatic, erudite and full of dry humour'. - Celia Anderson. 'DI Garibaldi takes the biscuit - my kind of detective in my part of London. Ingenious, entertaining, surprising - everything you want in a satisfying murder mystery'. - Gyles Brandreth. 'It's a job for DI Garibaldi, likeable country music-loving copper. A fine, twisting mystery, though the real pleasure lies in seeing Garibaldi dismantle the murderous self-interest of the London upper-middle classes' - Mail on Sunday Best New Fiction. 'An ingenious page-turner'. - Daily Mail
Book Information
ISBN 9781739638221
Author Bernard O'Keeffe
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Muswell Press
Publisher Muswell Press
The second DI Garibaldi Novel. Private tutoring is booming, and someone's making a killing. Cozy Crime at its best
About the Author
After graduating from Oxford, Bernard O'Keeffe taught English for many years before turning to crime writing. 'The Final Round', the first DI Garibaldi novel, was published in 2021. 'Private Lessons' was published in 2023 and the third in the series, 'Every Trick in the Book', is out in February 2024. He sees Garibaldi as 'the bastard son of Morse and Montalbano' and admits to sharing some characteristics with his fictional detective, most notably Irish-Italian ancestry, an inability to drive, a love of country music and possession of a QPR season ticket.
Reviews
A new detective hero; charismatic, erudite and full of dry humour'. - Celia Anderson. 'DI Garibaldi takes the biscuit - my kind of detective in my part of London. Ingenious, entertaining, surprising - everything you want in a satisfying murder mystery'. - Gyles Brandreth. 'It's a job for DI Garibaldi, likeable country music-loving copper. A fine, twisting mystery, though the real pleasure lies in seeing Garibaldi dismantle the murderous self-interest of the London upper-middle classes' - Mail on Sunday Best New Fiction. 'An ingenious page-turner'. - Daily Mail
Book Information
ISBN 9781739638221
Author Bernard O'Keeffe
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Muswell Press
Publisher Muswell Press
