When feisty travel writer, Giò Brando, receives an invitation to join her long-time friend on an island in Calabria for a Murder Mystery weekend, she is excited by the prospect. To run away from the grey London weather for a while; to escape her stubborn fiancé - and evenbetter, her mother-in-law-to-be - meet her family in her Italian hometown by the sea, and enjoy the Murder weekend with some celebrity guests sounds too good to be true. In fact, some of the guests are just as temperamental as you would expect from celebs. But when one mysteriously disappears, another gets stabbed in the library, a third plummets from the rocks... Gosh, what's happening? Is a madman trying to repeat the Ten Little Indians Saga or there's a method to this madness? As the storm ravages the island, cutting it off from the mainland, Giò has very little time to find out what is going on and save herself as well as the surviving guests from certain death. *** A murder mystery homage to Agatha Christie's classic . is the Prequel to the twisty and compelling "An Italian Village Mystery" series enjoyed by fans of Agatha Christie, MC Beaton, Ellery Adams, Rhys Bowen. The other books in the series include 1 - Murder on the Road 2 - A Fair Time for Death 3 - A Mystery before Christmas 4 - Peril at the Pellicano Hotel