The Venetian Redemption

Praise for Philip Gwynne Jones:
I devoured all Philip’s novels Val McDermid * Val McDermid *
Clever and great fun – The Times
An irresistible concoction of crime and culture – Daily Mail
As delightful as a Spritz by the Rialto - a must for all Italy lovers * David Hewson *
Truly evocative – Financial Times
[A] sumptuously set mystery – Daily Mirror
Sinister and shimmering * L.S. Hilton, bestselling author of Maestra *
The lively, colourful narrative scuds along as briskly as a water taxi…you’ll enjoy the ride – Italia Magazine
The read of the summer … the humour and the film and music references add to the richness of a beautiful setting and well-crafted storytelling. Jones has a deep understanding of Italian life and culture while retaining that outsider’s eye. The easy to read, highly entertaining style is perfectly judged. This may be the best in [the] series * Aspects of Crime *

Philip Gwynne Jones was born in South Wales in 1966 and lived and worked throughout Europe before settling in Scotland in the 1990s. He first came to Italy in 1994, when he spent some time working for the European Space Agency in Frascati, a job that proved to be less exciting than he had imagined.

He spent twenty years in the IT industry before realising he was congenitally unsuited to it. Furthermore, an attempt to find a secure, well-paid job with a proper pension had resulted in him finding himself in the IT department of a large Scottish bank during the global financial crisis.

Something, clearly, had to change. And so it was that – following a conversation with a man in a pub – Philip and Caroline left their jobs, sold their flat and moved to Venice in search of a better, simpler future. They were wrong about the ‘simpler’ bit …

Philip now works as a teacher, writer and translator, and lives in Venice with Caroline. He enjoys cooking, art, classical music and opera; and can occasionally be seen and heard singing bass with Cantori Veneziani and the Ensemble Vocale di Venezia.

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