The Liar in the Library

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Fethering has everything a sleepy coastal town should: snug English pubs, cosy cottages, a little local library - and the occasional murder ... A bestselling author with a soaring ego and wandering hands has come to town, but he won't be leaving. Jude is the prime suspect; she was, after all, the last person to slap Burton St Clair alive. If she is to prove her innocence she will have to dust off her detective skills, recruit her prim and proper friend (and partner-in-sleuthing) Carole, and together they must find the real culprit.

Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year's Honours 'for services to literature' and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work. simonbrett.com

A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans -- P. D. JAMES King of the witty village mystery * * Daily Telegraph * * Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment * * Guardian * * Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted... as Simon Brett * * Sunday Times * * Simon Brett writes the kind of good whodunits that could have been written fifty years ago . . . and he has a sly sense of humour * * The Times * * One of the wittiest crime writers around -- ANTONIA FRASER One of the exceptional detective story writers around * * Telegraph * * Murder most enjoyable . . . An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry -- COLIN DEXTER Deftly contrived, light-hearted mysteries * * The Times * *