At 5.30pm, 7th October, there will be a drinks-party at the restaurant Laguna Libre (Cannaregio) to celebrate the publication of my novel The Four Horsemen and the translation of Philip Gwynne Jones’s novel, The Venetian Game – Italian title, Il ponte dei delitti.

Here is my blurb for Philip’s novel: “..a playful novel, recounted by a witty and engaging narrator … as Venetian as a painting by Bellini (or a glass of Bellini). Oh, and it’s also an unputdownable thriller” (the publishers, in their wisdom, decided to go just for the last three words on the cover).