Festive Deception: Dark Mountain 2.5

By DB Tait

Murder doesn’t take a holiday!

After ten years in jail, Julia Taylor is about to experience her first Christmas on the outside. Life is good. Her interior design business is growing and she’s happily in love with Dylan, the cop who helped clear her name. When she snags a major commission to redesign an historic house, she’s over the moon, but quickly slams back down to earth when she discovers her new client, dead.

With Dylan investigating and a cast of odd suspects including an ex-spy in her seventies, Julia is reluctantly (well, that’s what she tells herself) drawn into finding out who wanted Vincent Perrin dead. What is about the house that inspires such greed?

• Language: English
• Publisher: DB Tait
• Release date: Oct 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370804849

DB Tait

Born and bred in Sydney, Australia, I’m a life long lover of books in all forms but crime fiction in particular. I worked for many years in the New South Wales prison system but decide a tree change was needed so decamped to the beautiful Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Now I write and work part-time in the community sector, tend my out-of-control garden, and try not to procrastinate too much.

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