Posts Tagged ‘Costa Del Sol’

Pen Press are pleased to announce the release of Death and Deceit, the new novella by local author Val Wingrove.

Billed as “A moving story of love and betrayal, intrigue and murder, with the action swapping seamlessly between London and Maro, a small village on the Costa del Sol” – the book will be launched on 27th May at All That Jazz, Playa Burriana, Nerja, where Val will be signing copies between 5pm and 7pm. Join them for a complimentary glass. All welcome!

About the book: A young woman discovers she has only a few months left to live. She decides to leave her home, her art business and her friends to face whatever comes along, and travels to the tranquillity of Maro, a place that is so dear to her heart. At the same time a young man is found dead, murdered in a London hotel room. Investigating the crime, Inspector Tim Walters and Sergeant Nobby Clarke stumble upon a serious fraud; at first it would seem one has no connection with the other, but as the investigation unravels could artistic and economic worlds have collided with tragic results? Time to book a flight to Malaga to find out more…

About the author: Val Wingrove was born in Ireland and seems to have inherited that Irish tradition for storytelling; this gift was honed by writing and telling stories to her children when they were young. Val now divides her time between her home in Surrey and frequent visits to Spain. She has drawn on her knowledge of the Costa del Sol, particularly Maro, to paint a vivid picture that many readers will instantly recognise. Death and Deceit is her first novel. Pen Press ISBN: 978-1-907499-04-3 £7.99 large print. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Smiffs in Nerja.

About the event: Join Val, the author for a glass of bubbly to celebrate the publication of her book and ask her to sign your copy.

Sol Searching – A Fun-Filled Tale of a Modern Girl’s Move to the Costa del Sol – tells of Keidi Keating’s quest to make friends, meet the man of her dreams and find a job (starting The Sentinella)!

Taken from the chapter entitled Moving Forward

My stomach wouldn’t stop dancing, as I was meeting Mr Money about the world’s longest job vacancy, at last! I was exuding excitement at the thought that my unemployment agony might be over by lunch time, but I desperately tried to retain a cool exterior. I pictured myself as a high profile magazine editor flitting between celebrity interviews, free lunches and designer shops. A chic Londoner living it up in the rich area of the Costa del Sol, with a job others would envy. Wealthy men. Yachts. Ferraris. Wealthy men. Yachts. Ferraris. Wealthy men. Yachts. Ferraris. The words bounced around my head, luring me to a new and pretentious life, like a conveyor belt on a game show, showing what I could win, if my luck was ripe.

I wondered what it would be like to have cash to splash; enough money to buy what I wanted, when I wanted, without having to worry about covering the rent each month. Mr Money told me I had the job in February and I assumed he had asked me to journey all the way to Marbella, to reveal a starting date. Why else?

My Dad drove the hour and a half slog. My head was like a washing machine, churning around at speed, while pondering over all the possibilities of the forthcoming meeting.

We had agreed to meet outside a café, beneath his office. He emerged out of a random door with a folder under his arm. He looked ‘wrong’. His eyes were bloodshot and baggy, his skin was dull and grey. If he was a piece of fruit one would have speculated that he was going off.

“Follow me” he said, leading me up some steps to his office.

There were two rooms overlooking a busy main road. I immediately observed that there was no furniture, no computer desks and no phones. No photocopier, no paper clip chains, no naked women calendars, nor any other tell tale ‘we work from here’ signs. Just one empty office, which clearly needed fitting.

Sol Searching can be purchased online via www.Amazon.co.uk It is also available from The Sentinella stall at the Tuesday farmer’s market, and from Arkwrights in Puente don Manuel.

See Keidi’s Sol Searching blog!