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I hope the New Year brings good things for you and the world, and if not, at least a renewed appreciation of irony.

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The Zorg Reckoning

MyTube Influencer June Drop finally fulfilled the promise of her name and fell dead — apparently from natural causes.  Yet is there anything more natural than murder?  Amateur detectives Barry Pomeroy and Athena Aperol are first on the scene in Brixham and immediately smell something fishy.  But who might have wanted her dead, and how did they arrange it?  The action moves along the South coast following the trawler Lammermoor, owned by the powerful French fishing baron Con Caduc and his Italian partner Alberti Basso.  Clues also point to the mysterious Stukeleys, the rising billionaire bad girl monozygotes.  The story reaches a climax in Harwich, which is more than can be said for anyone who lives there, where the layers of intrigue are finally laid bare.

The Zorg Connections

A thrilling sequel to The Zorg Reckoning sees intrepid amateur sleuths Barry Pomeroy and Athena Aperol diverted from a culinary tour of the Hague by the discovery of a dead man floating in the distant Stilwaard canal.   Ligature marks round his neck made it suicide — or was it murder?  The corpse could not be identified but papers on the body link the case to the formidable Brik Uithuis, Ambassador at the Aldeberanian Embassy.  Yet Uithuis is killed in a suspicious cheese incident before he can be questioned.  Dutch Inspector Ursula Van der Ing is baffled.  Political insider Jan Hein Haaninwijn points our plucky pair towards a spider’s web of connections, linking pancakes, distilled spirits, black sheep and a Eurovision entry by trans trance group Zinloos.   What in the end was the link to that far canal?