Death of a Cosy Writer

Review Fans of stylish English detective work will welcome Malliet’s droll debut. ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)Wicked, witty and full of treats . . . More, please! -- Peter Lovesy Product Description 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?Praise for G.M. Malliet:'Miss Marple would approve' Daily Mail'A superb novel . . . a wonderful read' Louise Penny Book Description The Agatha Award-winning St. Just Mystery series About the Author G M Malliet attended Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge. She now lives in the US.