Narrator: Simon Mattacks

I was looking for a book set in Italy and found Murder in Tuscany. It was fun and I ended up listening to the first four in the series, one right after the other, from the library. Retired DCI Dan Armstrong is a fish out of water at a writing retreat in Tuscany. Yes, he's an aspiring writer, but definitely not of erotica. Then someone is killed and he's helping the local police solve the crime between writing classes and sight-seeing. I loved the setting, a large villa in the Italian hills. We have a closed circle of suspects, several of whom are hiding secrets. Dan is a bit sexist and a bit mopey, but it's a quick read and the dead guy was not a good person, by any stretch of the imagination. Dan is staying in Tuscany, has a house and a dog and everything. He agrees to help the local chief and his friend Virgilio catch the killer,...