Rita Vegas, Patricia Donovan
Publication date: Late Feb 2025
RRP $35.00, PB, 264pp
ISBN: 978-1-0670207-6-7
“Rita Vegas swaps Wellington’s mean streets for a Cambodian rehab, but the bodies keep piling up. In this taut, elegant thriller, Donovan keeps us endlessly entertained.”
“Donovan delivers an edgy, intriguing crime story.”
Synopsis:
The Serenity Centre in Cambodia was full of secrets, of skeletons, bones in the closet, things unrevealed and undisclosed. You sensed it. There was an atmosphere.
The discovery of a dead body only added to the tension, and triggered in Rita painful memories of events in New Zealand five years earlier. A woman had been found dead at Rita’s workplace, and compromising material related to the death dumped in Rita’s bag. Who put it there? Why? Finding herself under suspicion, Rita is compelled to track down the answers.
In this engrossing novel, Patricia Donovan weaves together two crime stories to explore memory and the stickiness of emotional triggers, and how necessity drives us
About the Author:
PATRICIA DONOVAN grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Canterbury with an MA (Hons) in English Literature. After graduation she worked in corporate communications in Australia and New Zealand and is the author of a best practice guide to the profession. Rita Vegas is her fourth work of fiction.