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Holiday with Violence
Holiday with Violence
Holiday with Violence
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Holiday with Violence

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English teens on vacation in Italy are caught up in a murderous conspiracy, from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.
 
On a train ride across Northern Italy, a quartet of young English tourists en route to Venice are charmed by a kindly older fellow passenger. Inviting them into his first-class compartment, their new friend, Signore Galassi, beguiles them with stories, anecdotes, and fascinating facts about the lush Italian countryside.
 
But once the train deposits them all in Turin, a dark cloud settles over the Brits’ carefree holiday. After discovering that their elderly traveling companion has been brutally attacked and robbed, the distraught students vow to scour this unfamiliar city and find his assailant.
 
Unbeknownst to the young British visitors, they have something in their possession that ties into a greater, even more terrible crime. Their hunt could have unexpected and very deadly consequences, for now their quarry is hunting them.
 
The Edgar, Agatha, and Gold Dagger Award–winning author of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries is “highly recommended for those who still like a proper five course whodunit with all the trimmings” (The Sunday Times).
 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 1, 2016
ISBN9781480443877
Holiday with Violence
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Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (the pen name of Edith Pargeter, 1913–1995) is a writer beloved of millions of readers worldwide and has been widely adapted for radio and television, including her Brother Cadfael crime novels, which were made into a series starring Derek Jacobi. She has been the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger, Edgar Award for Best Novel, Agatha Award for Best Novel, and was awarded an OBE for her services to literature in 1994.

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    Wow. The descriptions throughout the story are incredible - all the light and color of Italy, all the richness of the landscape and the people and buildings and... The mystery (or more accurately, adventure - there's not a lot unknown by the middle of the story) is interesting if a trifle unlikely - a lot of coincidences making it possible, though they acknowledge the coincidences and thus make them more reasonable. And some major mental and emotional consequences for at least two of the characters. All very Ellis Peters, but this one - possibly because it's a standalone as far as I know, we don't see these people again - the descriptions and the realizations struck me hard. And the villain is so elegantly nasty - an expert at twisting things the way he wants, undone by their (and particularly her) sheer stubbornness. Good story. Of course now I want to read more Peters…

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