About By Way of the Valley:
If you follow your dreams, you will live the life that you ought to be living.
By Way of the Valley is an inspiring novel set in an arcadian Tuscan Valley – the quest of a man beset by adversity who strives to fulfil his destiny.
Recently unemployed and divorced Duncan Dyer works up the courage to quit his familiar but disappointing life in Malta to travel to the Valdichiana in Tuscany. He has to retrieve his late mentor’s precious diary at all costs. He owes it to him and to himself.
The suspicious death of the famous Scottish author Gordon Bell has been told off by the police as an accidental case of mushroom poisoning. Duncan thinks otherwise and is determined to unravel the mystery surrounding his beloved mentor’s demise.
Duncan’s quest, spurred by the mysterious Elijah, turns into an extraordinary ordeal of the mind, body and spirit, as he travels from one ancient hilltop town to another, discovering clues that are hidden in plain sight amidst priceless Medieval and Renaissance works of art. Accompanied in his quest by the beautiful but elusive Laura, Duncan unravels much more than he bargained for.
In a journey that spans distance and time; that transcends the world of the living and the dead, Duncan reinvents himself into the man he always longed to become, but risks being smothered by the sinister forces that have stirred up to stop him from taking the lid off the dark closet. Beneath the idyllic scenery of Tuscany lurks the dark side of Italy!
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Author Bio:
Maltese-born Richard Zahra has written travel articles for publications across various countries. He is a lover of history, art and world cultures, as well as a passionate traveller who has fostered a compulsive love affair with his two ‘adoptive’ countries – Italy and Scotland. His debut novel ‘By Way of the Valley’ is the result of that passion.