Bøger af James Ignizio

On 22 December 1943 the Susan Rae, an American B17 Flying Fortress, is lost. The aircraft is reported to have crashed into the English Channel. There are no survivors and no bodies are recovered. Records of the incident mysteriously go missing. The Susan Rae and its crew vanish, committed to the dustbin of history. On the day the Susan Rae disappears, the English village of Lower Friththingden is the scene of several remarkable events. Two Rolls-Royces are seen parked near the village church. The entourage has paused to listen to the sound of the village children's choir. Overhead a German parachute mine floats down, heading directly toward the church. Inside are most of the village inhabitants, including a young girl rumored to be the illegitimate child of Winston Churchill. More than a half-century later two men, an embittered American and a reclusive Englishman, have their lives altered as a consequence of the disappearance of the Susan Rae. Vince Collesano, ill, depressed, and alone, travels to England to satisfy his wife's final request. Seconds before her death she had pointed to a painting of an English churchyard and asked to have her ashes buried there - in the country where she had been born and raised. Unfortunately, Vince has no idea as to just where in England that particular churchyard is located. The promise cannot be kept without the help of his late wife's cousin, Albert "Bertie" Ambrose, a sad little man who hasn't ventured outside of London for more than thirty years. Despite Vince's intense dislike of Bertie, and all things English, the pair team up for what Vince believes to be a search for his wife's final resting place.

Tommi Blake - formerly a detective constable in the idyllic Cotswolds region of England - has decided to return to her beloved village of Chambury after a self-imposed two-year exile in America. She arrives in the midst of an epic storm to find herself stranded, just a few miles from her destination, in the Witherfield Arms Retirement Home. Tommi discovers that not all is as it seems within the Witherfield Arms, nor are all its residents who they claim to be. She quickly finds herself confronted with not just one, but two suspicious deaths ... as well as the one man in the world she isn't, as yet, prepared to meet. Death Comes to the Witherfield Arms is the second in the Cotswolds Mystery Series featuring Tommi Blake. Tommi was first introduced in The Dog at the Gate, the first book in the series. Both books are British Mysteries penned by James Ignizio, the award-winning author of the widely acclaimed novel: The Last English Village.

A man, a dog, and a fatal obsession ***** To say that David Wallace has been having a run of bad luck is like claiming that the maiden voyage of the Titanic was simply "an unfortunate excursion." The ill-fated American expatriate has lost his wife, his job, and his reputation. Just as it seems that all hope has vanished, he's informed that he is the heir to his great aunt's estate in the bucolic English village of Chambury. Once there, he discovers that his inheritance also includes his late aunt's grieving dog, a vintage typewriter, a mysterious key, and an entanglement in a series of unsolved murders. ***** James Ignizio is the author of more than a dozen books, several short stories, and over 350 articles. Included among his novels are "The Dog at the Gate" and the award-winning "The Last English Village," two cozy mysteries that take place in the Cotswold region of England

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