Inspector Ryga DEATH IN THE NETS available to pre-order

The third in the intriguing and entertaining 1950s set  Inspector Ryga mystery, number three in the series, DEATH IN THE NETS is now available to pre-order in paperback and on Amazon Kindle.  It will be published on 4 October 2021.

In DEATH IN THE NETS Scotland Yard's Inspector Ryga has a baffling new coastal crime to solve. This time his investigation takes him to the small fishing port of Brixham in Devon, England. Set in the 1950s these entertaining mysteries are full of twists and turns and capture the period perfectly.

DEATH IN THE NETS follows on from DEATH IN THE COVE (1) where Ryga is solving the mystery of the man in the pin striped suit found dead in the isolated Church Ope Cove on the Royal Island of Portland, Devon. His second investigation in DEATH IN THE HARBOUR takes him to the port of Newhaven in East Sussex where he is tasked to discover why an ordinary PC has been murdered and his wife has gone missing.

DEATH IN THE NETS

Former war photographer, Eva Paisley, insists that Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Ryga, return with her to the Devon coast where she has been staying with a friend, a former refugee from Belgium.  Eva remains tight-lipped about the reason, saying only that she’s puzzled and concerned over something she has heard since arriving there a week ago.  Ryga, off duty for the weekend, is only too pleased to escape London for the sea air and spend time in Eva’s company. She takes him to a house in the fishing port of Brixham where the son of her friend is adamant that he’s seen a body on the shore ‘all bashed up’.  Eva claims the little boy has been talking of nothing more for a week. The boy’s mother dismisses it as an over-active imagination but Eva’s not convinced. Now the child is adamant the body he saw was on the very night of their arrival. Ryga asks the child to take them to the location, not expecting to see anything, but is stunned to find the child has been telling the truth; on the dark shore, on the wet January night is indeed the body of a man, stabbed through the heart and tangled up in fishing nets.  After making some preliminary enquiries, Ryga, who has no jurisdiction to investigate, has to hand the case over to the local police. Very soon though, after a series of startling revelations, he is summoned back to Devon to discover why the dead man who left the town eleven years ago has returned and why someone hated him enough to murder him.

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