A Fatality in Spain

A Year in Europe, Book 4

De: Blake Pierce

Narrado por: Kathleen Strecker

A Fatality in Spain is Book 4 in a charming new cozy mystery series by USA Today best-selling author Blake Pierce, whose number one best seller Once Gone has received 1,500 five-star reviews. The series (A Year in Europe) begins with Book 1 (A Murder in Paris).

Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him - in fact, to reimagine her life, period.

Devoting the last 30 years of her life to being a dutiful wife and mother and to climbing the corporate ladder, Diana has been relentlessly driven, and has not taken a moment to do anything for herself. Now, the time has come.

Diana never forgot her first boyfriend, who begged her to join him for a year in Europe after college. She had wanted to go so badly, but it had seemed like a wild, romantic idea, and a gap year, she’d thought, would hinder her resume and career. But now, with her daughters grown, her husband gone, and her career no longer fulfilling, Diana realizes it’s time for herself - and to take that romantic year in Europe she’d always dreamed of.

Diana prepares to embark on the year of her life, finally turning to her bucket list, hoping to tour the most beautiful sights and sample the most scrumptious cuisines - and maybe, even, to fall in love again. But a year in Europe may have different plans in store for her. Can A-type Diana learn to go with the flow, to be spontaneous, to let down her guard and to learn to truly enjoy life again?

In A Fatality in Spain (Book 4), Diana decides to let go and take a chance at love, meeting up with her newfound friend in Barcelona, and trying to muster the courage to fulfill her lifelong dream of running with the bulls in Pamplona. Between the great food, the sunny streets, and her new love, life seems alive again - until a murder turns her world upside down. Can Diana save the case and herself - along with her summer?

A Year in Europe is a charming and laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series, packed with food and travel, with mysteries that will leave you on the edge of your seat, and with experiences that will leave you with a sense of wonder. As Diana embarks on her quixotic quest for love and meaning, you will find yourself falling in love and rooting for her. You will be in shock at the twists and turns her journey takes as she somehow finds herself at the center of a mystery, and must play amateur sleuth to solve it. Fans of books like Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun have finally found the cozy mystery series they’ve been hoping for!

Scandal in London (Book 5), An Imposter in Dublin (Book 6), Seduction in Bordeaux (Book 7), Jealousy in Switzerland (Book 8), and A Debacle in Prague (Book 9) are now also available!

©2021 Blake Pierce (P)2021 Blake Pierce

A crazy wild mystery-romance Beach Read.

A Fatality in Spain is a crazy-wild mystery/romance that begins in Barcelona at the statue of a big cat and ends in Pamploma at the "Running of the Bulls".
Diana, on a tour of the world to find herself and the purpose for her life, flies to Barcelona Spain (#4 in her stops) to meet up with a man she briefly met at stop #3. She doesn't even know his last name. (But lest you are frowning at that, be assured this is not a story of promiscuity and one-night stands. She seriously only wants a fun traveling companion.)
They are barely in Barcelona a few hours when Sean suggests they go to Pamploma for the famous Bull Festival and "run with the bulls!"
Although Diana has pledged to herself to "do something that scares you" every day, bulls terrify her and she tries to wheedle out. However, the fun easy-going Sean convinces her and off they go.
Once there, she meets a furious matedor, an even more furious bull - El Gordo - and a slew of other characters with hot Latin temperaments. And, alas, also a corpse of which she is soon accused of murdering.
The rest is frantic investigation by her, dragging Sean along, and him enjoying beers and curros at every stop.
Of course the true villain is found at the end. Plus a guy she'd maybe like for more than just traveling. Next stop, Dublin.
Great descriptions of Barcelona and Pamploma, and the terrors of running with crazy-mad bulls!

FOUR stars