The Festival Murders

Description

Bryce Peabody is ready to give a scandalous talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold. Scathing in his reviews and unseemly in his affairs, Bryce is known to have many enemies. So when he is discovered dead in his hotel room festival-goers are desperate to know what happened. Could one of the numerous writers he insulted have taken revenge? Or perhaps one of his scorned lovers? As more festival-goers meet their ends, Francis Meadowes is drawn into a role he knows only from his own fiction; that of amateur detective.

Mark McCrum began his career as a travel writer, with well-received books about Southern Africa (Happy Sad Land), Australia (No Worries) and Ireland (The Craic). He is also the author of the UK Top Ten non-fiction bestsellers 1900 House and Castaway 2000, the UK No.1 bestseller Robbie Williams: Somebody Someday, and Walking With The Wounded, which told the story of four wounded soldiers and their successful attempt to reach the North Pole.The Festival Murders is his debut novel. @McCrumMark www.markmccrum.com

A marvellous set of unsavoury suspects * * Mail on Sunday * * A wicked send-up of literary festivals . . . the mystery is ingenious * * Independent * * An old-fashioned murder mystery with neatly disguised clues . . . and a satisfyingly unexpected culprit * * Literary Review * * A rollicking read * * Evening Standard * * A brilliant premise * * Shots Magazine * *