Rita Vegas: Dead bodies were only the start
By (Author) Patricia Donovan
Mary Egan Publishing
Mary Egan Publishing
11th February 2025
New Zealand
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Paperback
264
Width 153mm, Height 230mm, Spine 25mm
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 Ritas workplace, and compromising material related to the death dumped in Ritas 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 to find strengths we dont know we have.
Donovan delivers an edgy, intriguing crime story. Jan Jordan
Rita Vegas swaps Wellingtons mean streets for a Cambodian rehab, but the bodies keep piling up. In this taut, elegant thriller, Donovan keeps us endlessly entertained. Redmer Yska
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.