The Devil's Tongue (aka Bresciano 5) is now complete. The first draft now has to be scanned for typos, misspellings and and gross errors of fact and logic (and experience tells us that there will be many of all of these!) We can only hope that most of them (it's never all) will be picked up and corrected before we go to press. We also have to decide on a cover illustration.
            By the way, there is a review of The Prince's Lady at http://historicalnovelsociety.org/ , and also one of Mary's solo novel Mosaic of an Unquiet Time.

To order any of the Bresciano novels, contact Mary Chiappe (marychiappe [AT] hotmail [DOT] com)

The Murder in Whirligig Lane…………...............£12.50 + P&P

Fall of a Sparrow……………………………….....£8.99 + P&P

The Pearls of Tangier…………………………......£8.99 + P&P

The Prince’s Lady……………………………........£9.99 + P&P

The Prince's Lady was launched on the 6th November, at the Gibraltar Garrison Library. There was a good turnout in spite of really foul weather to hear the Minister for Culture, Steven Linares, launch the newest episode in the Bresciano saga.
The book is now on sale in bookshops in Gibraltar and the Costa, at £9.99.
Work will now resume on the next book, The Devil's Tongue, which is set wholly in Gibraltar this time. The date is 1793, and an unwelcome acquaintance from the past turns up on Bresciano's doorstep...

The Prince's Lady

The fourth book in the Bresciano mysteries is now with the printers. Launch date is November 6th, at the Gibraltar Garrison Library.

Entitled The Prince's Lady, it is set in Gibraltar and nearby Spain. Several old characters return, and new characters include Prince Edward, fourth son of George III, and his beautiful mistress, Julie, Baronne de Fortisson.
Governor O'Hara has a problem: The Prince's mistress has disappeared from the house which Prince Edward had rented for her in Spain, and the Prince wants him to send a search party. The Governor has no intention of complying - so he sends Giovanni Bresciano instead.

News

The Pearls of Tangier has now been reviewed - favourably - in the Historical Novels Review.
The Prince's Lady (aka Bresciano 4) has now been completed and is being scanned by our faithful readers.
Bresciano 5 - probably to be entitled The Devil's Tongue - is in its initial stages.

The Pearls of Tangier - launch

The new Bresciano mystery was launched on Nov. 8th in the Casemates Fine Arts Centre by Christine Thomson, See the photos on Giovanni Bresciano's Facebook page,

The Pearls of Tangier

 This is the cover of the Pearls of Tangier. Cover illustration: The Medina, by Clive Lavagna.

The launch date is November 8th, and the book will be introduced by Christine Thomson in the Fine Arts Gallery, Casemates, Gibraltar.

We are grateful to the Gibraltar Ministry of Culture for taking on the launch as part of the Autumn Arts Festival, and to the Alwani Trust, Saccone and Speed Ltd and Gib Oil Ltd for financial assistance.

We plan to donate 25% of the proceeds of sales to the Leukaemia Research Fund (Gibraltar Branch).

The fourth Bresciano mystery

The fourth Bresciano mystery, provisionally entitled The Prince's Lady, is in the final stages of preparation, with a projected publishing date in 2012.
Set in Spain and Gibraltar, it tells of Bresciano's efforts to find the mistress of Prince Edward, the fourth son of George III.