The first page-turning mystery in the cosy crime series starring Cambridge DCI Arthur St. Just. Perfect for fans of Robert Thorogood, Reverend Richard Coles and M. C. Beaton.
‘Miss Marple would approve’ Daily Mail
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A family reunion and medieval-style murder? Ever so inconvenient.
Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth-century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting his four grown children with threats of disinheritance. Then he announces his latest blow – he’s engaged to Violet, a beautiful widow with a dubious past.
Money-driven panic soon sets in among the backstabbing brood when eldest son and appointed heir, Ruthven, turns up dead in the wine cellar. Who will win the inheritance sweepstakes? It’s a house full of suspicion, greed, vengeful malice – and ample motives for murder. Can Detective Chief Inspector St. Just nab the killer before another heir lands in the family burial plot?
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Praise for G.M. Malliet:
‘A superb novel . . . a wonderful read’ Louise Penny
‘For fans of old-fashioned cozies’ Booklist
‘Malliet draws the reader in with elegant prose and distinctive characters’ Publishers Weekly
‘G M Malliet has brought the village cosy into the twenty first century ‘ Charles Todd
‘Miss Marple would approve’ Daily Mail
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A family reunion and medieval-style murder? Ever so inconvenient.
Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth-century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting his four grown children with threats of disinheritance. Then he announces his latest blow – he’s engaged to Violet, a beautiful widow with a dubious past.
Money-driven panic soon sets in among the backstabbing brood when eldest son and appointed heir, Ruthven, turns up dead in the wine cellar. Who will win the inheritance sweepstakes? It’s a house full of suspicion, greed, vengeful malice – and ample motives for murder. Can Detective Chief Inspector St. Just nab the killer before another heir lands in the family burial plot?
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Praise for G.M. Malliet:
‘A superb novel . . . a wonderful read’ Louise Penny
‘For fans of old-fashioned cozies’ Booklist
‘Malliet draws the reader in with elegant prose and distinctive characters’ Publishers Weekly
‘G M Malliet has brought the village cosy into the twenty first century ‘ Charles Todd
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Reviews
Death of a Cosy Writer is a romp, a classic tale of family dysfunction in a moody and often humourous English country house setting.
Fans of stylish English detective work will welcome Malliet’s droll debut.
Wicked, witty and full of treats . . . More, please!
For fans of old-fashioned cozies'
An affectionate homage to the Golden Age of British crime fiction by a skilled writer rapidly attracting attention.
