Ellis Peters: Holiday with Violence (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
English teens on vacation in Italy are caught up in a murderous conspiracy, from the Edgar Award-winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.
On a train ride across Northern Italy, a quartet of young English tourists en route to Venice are charmed by a kindly older fellow passenger. Inviting them into his first-class compartment, their new friend, Signore Galassi, beguiles them with stories, anecdotes, and fascinating facts about the lush Italian countryside.

But once the train deposits them all in Turin, a dark cloud settles over the Brits' carefree holiday. After discovering that their elderly traveling companion has been brutally attacked and robbed, the distraught students vow to scour this unfamiliar city and find his assailant.

Unbeknownst to the young British visitors, they have something in their possession that ties into a greater, even more terrible crime. Their hunt could have unexpected and very deadly consequences, for now their quarry is hunting them.

The Edgar, Agatha, and Gold Dagger Award-winning author of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries is "highly recommended for those who still like a proper five course whodunit with all the trimmings" (The Sunday Times).

Ellis Peters: Holiday with Violence. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781480443792 (March, 2016), eBook, 4.65 MB (ca. 354 p.), $9.99.

Ellis Peters: Holiday with Violence (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
It should have been a wonderful holiday: four young people travelling together through the Italian countryside to Venice. Everyone is so friendly - particularly the charming elderly gentleman who shares his first-class railway carriage with them for part of the way. So it is a terrible shock, on their arrival at Turin, to discover that Signor Galassi has been the victim of a brutal attack - a sordid little robbery with violence.

Their spirits somewhat dampened, the four continue on their journey, only to find that trouble pursues them. For they have inadvertently walked off with crucial evidence of a more serious crime - evidence that someone needs desperately to retrieve...

Ellis Peters: Holiday with Violence. Headline, ISBN: 0747239231 (July, 1992), 345 p., £4.99.