COSTA DEL TROLL: A Darkly Funny Tale of Death, Drama and British Expats in Spain

By Hugh Rafferty

Meet Margaret Wilson: recently widowed, expertly polite--and quietly lethal. After dispatching her abusive husband with a well-measured dose of antifreeze, Margaret moves to a sunny Spanish town in search of peace, freedom, and perhaps a decent gin and tonic. But paradise comes with a catch: the local expat community hides a dark underbelly--petty gossip, online vitriol, and an anonymous forum where the cruelest trolls thrive behind fake names and bad grammar. Margaret has seen this kind of toxicity before--and she has a very particular way of dealing with it. Armed with a notebook, a charming smile, and an encyclopedic knowledge of poisonous plants, Margaret begins to match usernames to faces, secrets to sins. One by one, the trolls of Playa Dorada may find that being nasty online has real-life consequences--especially when their newest neighbor believes in justice served with a side of Victoria sponge. Costa del Troll is a deliciously dark satire of expat life, online cruelty, and quiet revenge--Agatha Christie meets Desperate Housewives , with a body count.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F2HKD1NY
• ISBN13: 9798315466420
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 255 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"