Deadly Verse

by Elizabeth Varadan

In Deadly Verse, Carla and Owen Bass have dinner with Owen's old college chum, Hugh Winters. Hugh has recently retired from his hotel management job on Celestial Navigations Cruise Line to open an antiquarian bookstore in Braga. Mysteriously, he asks Owen to keep a document overnight - supposedly an original handwritten sonnet by the Portuguese Renaissance poet, Luís Vaz de Camões, worth one and a half million dollars if it is authentic. Reluctantly, Owen agrees. And then his friend disappears. Soon, Detective Fernandes is on the scene, and once again Carla's curiosity gets her in serious trouble.

Paperback

Published August 4, 2022

About the author

My husband and I lived in Midtown Sacramento for many years, a beautiful area with bookstores, art stores, cafes, tree-lined streets, and old Victorians and bungalows. In February, 2021 we moved to Braga, Portugal, where two of my cozy mysteries are set.

I love to read all kinds of books: cozy mysteries, historical fiction, middlegrade and YA, poetry . . .