Bad Apples by J J Marsh

Bad Apples by J J Marsh

British crime fiction where characters become people and place is part of the story.

Some people are just rotten to the core.

Acting DCI Beatrice Stubbs is representing Scotland Yard at a police conference in Portugal. Her task is to investigate a rumour - a ghostwritten expos of European intelligence agencies - and discover who is behind such a book.

Hardly a dangerous assignment, so she invites family and friends for a holiday. Days at the conference and evenings at the villa should be the perfect work-life balance.
Until one of her colleagues is murdered.

An eclectic alliance of international detectives forms to find the assassin. But are they really on the same side?
Meanwhile, tensions rise at the holiday villa. A clash of egos sours the atmosphere and when a five-year-old child disappears, their idyll turns hellish.

From Lisbon streets to the quays of Porto, Parisian caf s to the green mountains of Ger s, Beatrice realises trust can be a fatal mistake.

Each book works as a stand-alone novel.

If you enjoy Donna Leon, Patricia Wentworth and Ann Cleeves, you'll love Bad Apples.

Murder at a crime conference, family fireworks and all the ingredients for a rollercoaster adventure - Francis Guenette, author of The Crater Lake Series

JJ Marsh is the author of The Beatrice Stubbs series, which has been featured in The Guardian Readers' Recommend and The Bookseller's Editor's Pick. He is also the founder of Triskele Books, an award-winning author collective that was created in 2011. Triskele creates initiatives to promote other writers, such as Triskele LitFest and The Big5 Competition, in addition to publishing 21 novels. Co-editor of The Woolf, Zürich's literary ezine and authors' workshop - Journalist for Words with JAM, the journal for writers - Reviewer for Bookmuse, the readers' site with a difference