Death on the Costa del Sol

Author/Guide: M.H. Eccleston

Why a Booktrail?

2023: The sunniest days, the deadliest nights.

ISBN: B09WZ6N9Q5
Genre: Cosy crime

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What you need to know before your trail

It’s the end of the summer season in the harbour town of Estepona. The holiday makers are heading home, leaving the British expats to reclaim their little corner of paradise. Among them is art restorer Astrid Swift’s estranged father. She’s sailed into town to reunite with him but has instead been tasked with catching an internet troll who’s been threatening his wife online.

Soon Astrid is entwined in the lives of these expats, from the boozy local heckler to the socially awkward beachcomber. And then she discovers a body in the bunker of the golf course…

Can Astrid uncover the ‘Costa del Troll’ behind the poison-pen campaign before they reveal everyone’s secret past? Or will they tear this cosy community – including Astrid and her father – even further apart?

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Costa del Sol – Estepona

A nice little coastal town in Spain awaits in this book – Estopena is a very real and very pretty location. The town welcomes Astrid via its friendly locals, expats and sense of community.

Plenty of Spanish flavour in the descrriptions of food and landscape.

There’s lots to enjoy here and the book describes expat life to the full. When someone starts to troll them online, Astrid steps in. She is hoping to get to know her father as they are estranged from each other. Not going to be an easy holiday then is it? One of the first things her father does is ask her to investigate the online trolling.

It’s the setting here that shines. Small town Spanish life and the sense of both community and isolation in the expat and local communities. There’s the sunny side of life here but also the hardship and the every day reality.