New Bites: A Door in the River by Inger Ash Wolfe and The Dead Season by Christobel Kent

The Dead Season by Christobel Kent



Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year
the heatwave is fiercer than usual, and the city's inhabitants have
fled to the cool of the hills and beaches of the surrounding
countryside. So it is no surprise that amidst the shrubbery of a
normally busy roundabout, a corpse lies unnoticed, bloating in the
humid air.

Sandro Cellini will not be joining the crowds of
holidaymakers this year. The former policeman turned private detective
has a case: a man who seems to have vanished into thin air - leaving
his pregnant young wife alone in the city. Meanwhile, bank teller
Roxana Delfino is also stuck in the city for the season, with nothing
to do but worry for her aging mother and puzzle over the disappearance
of one her regular clients.

As all Florence sweats it out,
Cellini attempts as best he can to grapple with his case and the
complications it throws up. And when the weather finally breaks, it
brings with it a shocking revelation . . .



A Door in the River by Inger Ash Wolfe



Stinging deaths aren't uncommon in the summertime, but when Henry Wiest
turns up stung to death at an Indian reservation, Detective Hazel
Micallef senses not all is as it seems.  And when it turns out the "bee"
was a diabolical teenaged girl on a murder spree with a strange weapon,
a dark and twisted crime begins to slowly emerge.  The questions,
contradictions, and bodies begin to mount, as two separate police forces
struggle to work together to save the soul of Westmuir County.