The Magus of Sicily

A murder mystery drenched in Sicily … If this book is not popular with fans of The White Lotus, something is definitely awry … [a] sumptuously set mystery * Daily Mirror *‘Philip Gwynne Jones is on a winning streak with his Italian mysteries … there is no let-up in the tension that keeps us rooted to the page’ * Daily Mail *The Magus of Sicily invokes Italy’s most exquisite island as a setting for myth and murder … truly evocative * Financial Times *A delight * Peterborough Telegraph *If you enjoy Italy, either in reality or imagination, you couldn’t help but enjoy Jones’s books * Morning Star *Praise for Philip Gwynne Jones’s other novels:I devoured all Philip’s novels and felt transported to Venice with a new intimacy – Val McDermidClever 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 HewsonSuperb - always gripping, beautifully constructed and vivid – Stephen GloverSinister and shimmering – L.S. Hilton, bestselling author of Maestra

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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