By The Brook (An old crime with long shadows)

By The Brook (An old crime with long shadows) 
Inspector Marko Mystery No 1
Author: Dena Ronko
The Vignoles Press
ISBN978-1-9164010-9-9
264pp
Due out 1st May 2026
 
When a body is discovered by the brook in the quiet village of Betanje, the stench of decay unsettles a community shaped by World War II,  political tensions, and life along a tightly guarded border.
A seasoned inspector, Marko Jovanović, is called to investigate a crime no one seems eager to explain or understand. As questions ripple through the village, old loyalties tighten, wartime secrets and carefully buried resentments begin to surface. 
Now that silence is cracking....
 
Introducing Inspector Marko Jovanović, working within the Slovenian territory of Yugoslavia in 1972.  'By The Brook' is the first of a trilogy of Inspector Marko mysteries the Vignoles Press is delighted to bring to print. Dena Ronko is a new Slovenian crime writer and this is her first book. It is not only a fabulously enjoyable crime mystery full of deeply hidden secrets, lies and denials, but all the more remarkable for being written in English.