Like Bottled Fire: A PI Daniel Beckett Short Story: A missing piece of the jigsaw (PI Daniel Beckett Series)

Before London Before Private Investigation There was Rome and a beautiful woman But this is not a romance. Not quite... ‘I felt quite faint. It was as if someone had been reading my mind and created a woman from my most secret and lascivious fantasies. I thought I had been found out.' ~ PI Daniel Beckett Like Bottled Fire takes place a few years before Daniel Beckett appeared in London working as an unlicensed private investigator and is an ingeniously constructed standalone short story that incorporates Dominic Piper’s usual fusion of intriguing mystery suspense danger red-hot sensuality beautiful women and ruthless amorality. A lethal drug overdose that guarantees death within five seconds. Beckett takes on a high-risk assignment in an exclusive restaurant in Rome accompanied by a ravishing Italian woman who may not realise she’s being used as cover. But not everything goes to according to plan and perhap