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“What an amazing read. Amusing, outright funny and so sad too.”

What do you do when your adult kids fly the nest and you are having a midlife crisis during a global pandemic? You buy a 22 room derelict villa in Italy while grocery shopping of course. Well, that is what Rosie did.

Buying the house was an accident. She only went out for bananas.

Rosie embarks on renovating her 22 room ‘new’ home in Italy with a non-negotiable move-in date of Christmas Eve.

Surrounded by a cast of interesting characters, the Irish woman learns the Italian way of life and house renovating in the country she wants to call home. But when the project manager goes AWOL, non-Italian speaking Rosie has no option but to take control with the help of a translation app.

With no heating, windows disappearing, mystery holes in the garden, water flooding down the stairs, a pandemic destroyed business and with a move-in date that seems more laughable than doable, Rosie begins to question if she was crazy to follow through on her fabulous midlife crisis dream of renovating a villa in Italy.

With a new roof and working electrics in place, Rosie is ready for the next phase of turning the 22-roomed derelict Italian villa into a home. It needs to be ready in time for her elderly Irish parents to move in, and her daughter to finally visit after being separated for so long.

However, with renovation disasters, endless negotiations with the Shouty Woman at the bank, and the several shades of suffocating mould in every room, it seems like the house will never be a home for Rosie and her family, let alone her octogenarian parents from Ireland.

The over-enthusiastic tradesmen who put water in the electrics and leave unexpected bills in the letterbox, strengthen the thought that perhaps it would be easier to leave the villa in Italy dream behind and just pack up and move back to Ireland…

Some reviews of books in this series:
"The best book I read this year. Comic genius."
"Totally hooked. Enjoyed it from the first page to the last."
"This book is now on my shortlist of favourite books EVER!"

Going to an 80th birthday party was not how Daisy imagined spending a romantic week in Florence. It sounded as exciting as watching paint dry. But with looted art by the Nazis and forged paintings being the major topics of conversation, Daisy finds herself intrigued by the art expert guests.

The party leads to a surprise engagement and Daisy inevitably gets pulled into planning a high-speed wedding at the Uffizi Art Museum. But during the site inspection of the gallery's restoration studios, they find something unexpected. A life-model... artistically murdered.

All fingers point at the guests of the birthday party, including the bride and groom-to-be. With the help of her trusty assistant Sophia, and loyal dog Shadow, Daisy is dragged into figuring out who-done-it and, more so, why? Has the ghost in the attic who she dreams of, or the Ugly Child in the painting who she feels is watching her, anything to do with it? Will you be able to figure out who done it, and why, before Daisy does?

Wedding Planner Daisy Dell is an international expert on everything weddings, especially in Italy. But sometimes, a dash of murder and mystery finds its way past her up the aisle, especially in her last wedding season before she retires.

When asked to take over the planning of a wedding at Villa Tusca in Rome, Daisy didn’t realise she would be biting off more wedding cake than she could chew. The day before the wedding, while Daisy is staying in guest accommodation at the neighbouring monastery, one inhabitant meets a grizzly end.

With the help of her trusty assistant Sophia, and loyal dog Shadow, Daisy needs to find out who-dunnit amongst those staying at the convent. She must act fast so that the wedding couple has their perfect day and the wedding guests remain blissfully unaware of the murder investigation going on beyond the bay tree border… and to save herself from being accused of murder before the champagne bubbles go flat.

This cozy mystery book series has no graphic descriptions of violence nor bad language. An excellent and enjoyable page turning mystery.