Nota Bene

by David Roberts

Nota Bene is a crime novel taking place in Malta and Tunisia. A detective is hired to find a missing archaeologist, only to find him murdered and this takes him on a road to hell. What is driving everyone to warn him off from investigating? Is a murderer trying to cover his tracks? Did he have a night’s frolic with the wrong woman? Is he in league with the wrong people? The detective needs to find out so that he can protect himself.

289 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 18, 2025

About the author

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David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000 he has been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly has described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".

Reviews

[LPG · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty bad. I only stuck with it because the settings were interesting. By the end, there were so many characters, I didn't care who did what to whom and why. And I had not expected the torture scenes - I thought it was a 'mystery'.