Monthly Archives: October 2023

Reckoning at the Riviera Royale Real Release on Audible

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riviera-audio-coverTwo weeks ago was meant to be the official launch of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale audiobook and, technically, it was, except for Audible, who likes to play hard-to-get.

Finally, Tim Bruce and his personal cast of a dozen accents and attitudes is on Audible as of today (October 25th) reading Reckoning at the Riviera Royale, Anty’s fifth locked-room puzzler.

In Reckoning at the Riviera Royale, we finally meet Anty’s mum, who features among the suspects when Anty determines that what at first appears to be a simple trampling of a clown dressed as a mouse in an elephant’s cage on a tropical island in the middle of the night turns out to be something out of the ordinary.

https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Riviera-Royale-Boisjoly-Mysteries/dp/B0CLMPPZS5

Release of the Riviera Royale

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UPDATE to the UPDATE: Reckoning at the Riviera Royale is now live on Audible at https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Riviera-Royale-Boisjoly-Mysteries/dp/B0CLMPPZS5

UPDATE: It turns out that new titles can take as much as thirty days to reach the shelves of various platforms. I’m sorry that I didn’t know that when I announced the 13th as the launch date, but I’ll leave it as it is because a) the real date is now ‘sometime in the next thirty days’ and b) it’s my mistake and I should own up to it.

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Production is now complete on the audiobook of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale and it’s due to make itself heard on the 13th of October (that’s Friday the 13th, quite deliberately — the gods of gaffes and scheduling have been so kind to us we felt it just had to be some sort of sign).

The talented Tim Bruce returns, again and again, as a wide cast of accents and eccentrics, to narrate Anty’s fifth impossible poser in which his mother features among the accused when what appears to be a simple matter of a clown dressed as a mouse trampled by a kind-hearted elephant turns out to be a case of locked-room murder.

This milestone also represents a return to regular releases of Anty Boisjoly in audiobook. Next will be The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich in time for Christmas. This also means a closer collaboration between author and actor, including a new tradition of quick and quirky bonus features (keep listening after the conclusion of Reckoning for The Curious Encounter at a London Counter).

Production on Reckoning at the Riviera Royale was done by Raconteurs LLC (​​https://raconteurs.co.uk/) and their calm, confident competence is why we’re meeting the release schedule without a single hiccup or hitch.

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling Cover Reveal

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In the absence of a concrete release date, which was last seen consorting with some unruly delays and dubious planning around the end of the month, here’s the all-but-guaranteed-final-draft of the cover of Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling.

It’s a classic, manor house, mystery-within-a-locked-room-mystery when a death is foretold by a mystic that Anty Boisjoly is sure is a charlatan. But when an impossible murder follows the foretelling, Anty and his old ally and nemesis Inspector Wittersham must sift the connivance, contrivance, misguidance,  and reliance on pseudoscience of the household and its haunted history before the killer strikes again.

Avoiding spoilage, FF at FF splices the classic locked room manor house mystery with a bit of Clue to a singular spin that’s rather by definition a bit more populous, stagey, and subtextual than previous Boisjoly puzzlers. It’s also a bit longer, if that goes any distance in excusing the delay in getting this book to the fixtures and finishings stage.