A Dish Served Cold

by Diney Costeloe

When Pam Smith finally plucks up the courage to escape from her loveless and abusive marriage, she sets in train a course of events that will not only irrevocably change her life, but disrupt the lives of her ex-husband, shady antiques dealer, Roger, and his shrewish daughter, Karen.



Terrified that Roger will try and find her and force her to come back, Pam takes refuge with an old school friend, taking care to leave no trail behind her. A stroke of good fortune decides Pam that she must disappear for good, vanish without a trace, but as she is to discover, that is not as easy as it sounds, especially when she’s reported missing by a friend and the police become involved.

264 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 27, 2014

About the author

Encouraged by my publisher father, I have been writing all my life. When I was five, he took my first effort to his office and brought it back in a cardboard cover with the label, 'Tom's Party'written by Diney, published by Daddy.
I've never looked back and always have some writing on the go.
To date I have written 10 romantic novels under the name of Diney Delancey (I liked the shape of the name and it sounded like a romantic novelist) and four novels as Diney Costeloe.
All are also in large print and several recently published as e-books.
See my reviews on Amazon and on my website, http://www.dineycosteloe.co.uk or http://castlehavenbooks.co.uk

Reviews

[Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Refreshing. A straightforward story with a predictable outcome. I would have been disappointed had it been otherwise. No grisly prologue with panting and dismemberment. No abrupt multiple point of view shifts heralded by pseudo-precise locations of time and place, plus names. Like: Tom, Huddersfield, June 23, 1907, 10 11 pm. Was fun once, now not. So, negative values. But also a well knit narrative, nothing out of place, as far as I can tell.

[Kristine Stoehner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Average read

But fun.....probably will not read any more books bythis author
Damsel in distress, damsel rescues herself by winning the lottery
The other books that I’ve read by this author had some history: this did not

[Eric Grounds · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another great Diney Costelloe novel. Keep them coming