Ibiza Surprise

Ibiza Surprise

By Dorothy Dunnett

Genre:-Classic Crime/Women Sleuths/Humor

Pages:-304

Publisher:-Farrago

Blurb:-When Sarah Cassells, a British girl who has just completed her training as a chef, hears of her father's violent death on Ibiza, she refuses to believe it is suicide. She goes to Ibiza to investigate and becomes involved with an act dealer; with two beautiful jetsetters; with her brother's strange predicament; with a remarkable American woman who is not all what she seems-and with Johnson Johnson, the mysterious portrait painter who shows up on his yacht, Dolly. As Ibiza prepares to celebrate Holy Week with the traditional processions, events become more and more macabre....

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My Review:-This is Book Three in the 'Dolly Novels.' and I've had the pleasure to review yet another great book by Dorothy Dunnett. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone. I love how this book starts 'Bifocal glasses are common.'   Sarah, Flo and Janey all knew each other from St Tizzy's, (St Theresa's). Sarah Cassells had a small business in catering, but that didn't mean she had money. When Sarah get's the news that her father, has committed suicide, she knew that it wasn't true. How was she going to find the truth? Sarah had to get to Ibiza and start to investigate what really happened to her father. Sarah wasn't short of a few men wanting to get to know her, Coco a Poet, Tony Lloyd (Gilbert's father), Gilbert Lloyd her friend Janey's brother (who she had a crush on at school), Austin a gallery owner, Clem Sainsbury, and of course Johnson Johnson with Dolly. Sarah's investigation wasn't as simple or like any other, lets just say a lot of parties, clubs, dark alley's and beaches. It's up to Johnson to help find out wants went on and who is who. Where ever there's a murder Johnson Johnson, along with Dolly is on the scene.  I love the description of Ibiza, and some some of the sayings 'like see-through gloves, and champagne stoppers and high heels with trousers.'  I'm not saying any more as I might say to much. All I will say is watch your eye on one of the men that I've mentioned.