Private Lessons
Published on 30. March 2023
360 pages
978-1-7396382-3-8 (ISBN)
Description
Private tutoring is booming and someones making a killing. An Autumnal Sunday morning, a hungover jogger stumbles across a dead body covered in blood, in Barnes Old Common Cemetery, a long-abandoned Gothic graveyard frequented by druggies and drunkards. The victim has spent the summer working in Italy for the wealthy Rivetti family, who appear have something to hide, as too do his bosses at the high-end Forum Tutorial Agency. And why are his old friends, who he'd been partying with the night before, quite so reticent when questioned? Enter DI Garibaldi, the Met's only non-driving, country music loving detective. His first step, to unravel the complex workings of the private tuition company, the Forum Agency.
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After graduating from Oxford, Bernard O'Keeffe taught English for many years before turning to crime writing. He has published five novels in the DI Garibaldi series, The Final Round (2021), Private Lessons (2023), Every Trick in the Book (2024) and The Masked Band (2025). The Carousel of Time is published in February 2026. He describes DI Garibaldi as "the bastard son of Morse and Montalbano" and admits to sharing several things with his detective Irish Italian ancestry, an inability to drive, a love of country music and a QPR season ticket. He lives in Barnes, the leafy area of south-west London where the novels are set.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
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- Acknowledgements
- Also by Bernard O'Keeffe
- Copyright
