Into the Blue

Traditional Detective Mysteries

Author: Robert Goddard

Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure, leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace, reduced to caretaking a friend’s villa on the island of Rhodes and working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa – a young woman he had instantly and innocently warmed to – disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder, Harry stumbles on a set….Read More

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