Olive Vivid, Pigeoneer | Bookzio

Creator:
Stephanie Graves

Class:
Mysteries

Common value:
$3.99

Deal value:
$1.99

Deal begins:
December 20, 2022

Deal ends:
December 20, 2022

“Pleasant.”
—Kirkus Critiques
“Charming and thrilling…the proper cozy thriller, with a superb heroine you’re positive to adore.”
—Apple Books,Better of the Month Choice
Set in a captivating British village throughout World Battle II, Stephanie Graves’ debut thriller introduces Olive Vivid, a spirited younger pigeon fancier who finds herself on the coronary heart of a baffling homicide. . . .

Although conflict rages throughout mainland Europe and London is strafed by German plane, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles alongside a lot because it at all times has. Adrift since her greatest pal, George, joined the Royal Air Drive, twenty-two-year-old Olive Vivid fills her days by serving to at her father’s veterinary observe and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Determined to do her bit, Olive hopes that the Nationwide Pigeon Service will enlist Vivid Lofts’ experience, and use their extremely skilled birds to ship important, coded messages for His Majesty’s Forces.

The strangers who arrive in Pipley should not from the NPS. As a substitute, Jameson Aldridge and his affiliate are tied to a covert British intelligence group generally known as Baker Avenue. If Olive needs her pigeons to assist the conflict effort, she should accomplish that in full secrecy. Bored with dwelling vicariously via the characters of her beloved Agatha Christie novels, Olive readily agrees. However within the midst of her subterfuge, the village of Pipley is coping with one other thriller. Native busybody Miss Husselbee is discovered useless exterior Olive’s pigeon loft. Is the homicide tied to Olive’s new project? Or did Miss Husselbee lastly achieve ferreting out a secret shameful sufficient to kill for? With the gruff, good-looking Jameson as an unlikely ally, Olive intends to search out out—however homing in on a assassin generally is a lethal enterprise . . .
“Totally charming… A fabulous learn.”
—Tasha Alexander, New York Instances bestselling writer of Within the Shadow of Vesuvius
“Sensible, energetic, and witty.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A recent, quirky, and charming new heroine.”
—Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Instances bestselling writer of the Edgar-nominated Maggie Hope collection
“Entertaining.”
—Felony Component