PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781787477650
- Categories 25QT1, [2024], BX, BXOS, DEC24_1, F CTM, Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, New Arrivals OS, NOV24_1, PNSG_OCT
- Author(s) Elly Griffiths
- Publisher Quercus Publishing
- Pages 368
- Format Paperback B
- Dimensions 12.7cm x 2.5cm x 19.6cm
- Weight 0.227 kg
product description
"This droll romp is a latter-day Miss Marple.” —Washington Post
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie.
The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy’s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith’s passing.
But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy’s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy. And each psychological thriller included a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and its author is found dead shortly thereafter—Detective Kaur begins to think that perhaps there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all.
And then things escalate: from an Aberdeen literary festival to the streets of Edinburgh, writers are being targeted. DS Kaur embarks on a road trip across Europe and reckons with how exactly authors can think up such realistic crimes . . .