The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes

by Cathy Ace

Overview

Guests of honor at the opening of a swish new restaurant in Arizona, Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist sleuth Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are looking forward to living in the lap of luxury for a week.

But an unexpected death at the desert retreat puts more than a wrinkle in their plans. Is the Faceting for Life movement, of which their host is a devotee, just a harmless framework for life-affirming activities, or a façade for a cult where no one is quite who they appear to be?

In the twelfth Cait Morgan Mystery, Cait and Bud arrive at their remote destination keen to relax and indulge, only to discover that Cait might have – for the first time in her life – truly met her match. And her adversary's agenda? Well, it's anything but restful...indeed, it's both wicked, and deadly.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161032626
Publisher:	Four Tails Publishing Ltd.
Publication date:	04/07/2022
Series:	The Cait Morgan Mysteries , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	861 KB

About the Author

Cathy Ace migrated from her native Wales to Canada at the age of 40. She is the award-winning author of the traditional Cait Morgan Mysteries featuring her Welsh Canadian criminology professor sleuth who travels the world tripping over corpses, now optioned for TV. She also writes the cozier WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries featuring a quartet of female PIs who run their business out of a Welsh stately home. Both series have been well-reviewed. Her award-winning standalone, THE WRONG BOY, is a gripping novel of psychological suspense, set in Wales, and has also been optioned for TV.

"Ace is, well, an ace when it comes to plot and description.” The Globe and Mail

Cathy's work has won the prestigious Bony Blithe Award for best Canadian light mystery, an IPPY and an IBA Award, and has been shortlisted for a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Short Story, as well as the Crime Fiction Lover's award for Best Indie.

Editorial Reviews

"Have you been missing those delightful mystery-travelogue works...? Say hello to Cathy Ace and her intrepid sleuth, Cait Morgan, a Welsh-Canadian professor with a predilection for investigating crime...Ace is, well, an ace when it comes to plot and description."

The Globe and Mail - Margaret Cannon

"...After a decent number of red herrings surface, plus the emergence of several characters who are more, or less, than they present themselves to be, Cait gathers the suspects...for a summing up. If all of this suggests the school of Agatha Christie, it's no doubt what Cathy Ace intended. She is, as it fortunately happens, more than adept at the Christie thing."

Toronto Sun - Jack Batten

"Her writing is stellar. Details, references, allusions, expertly crafted phrasing, and serious subjects punctuated by wit and humour."

Ottawa Review of Books - Wendy Hawkin

"Cait unravels the...mystery using her eidetic memory and her powers of deduction, which are worthy of Hercule Poirot."

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Steve Steinbock