The Liar in the Library

Written by Simon Brett

Review written by Amy Myers

Amy Myers is known for her short stories and historical novels featuring Victorian chef Auguste Didier and chimney sweep Tom Wasp. Her contemporary series feature ex-cop Peter Marsh and Daughter and classic car detective Jack Colby, and she is currently working on a new series starring Cara Shelley who runs a café in the grounds of stately home Tanton Towers. Website: www.amymyers.net


The Liar in the Library
Black Thorn
RRP: £8.99
Released: June 6 2019
PBK

Sometimes it’s good just to settle down with a good, undemanding, well written novel, and for crime story lovers Simon Brett’s Fethering series fits the bill superbly.

On second thoughts, delete the word undemanding, because I enjoyed the first chapter so much it demanded that I went back to re-read it for sheer pleasure. Fethering, which has been visited by murder on quite a few occasions for this series, is a small village on the south coast, and boasts not only a pub and the library of the title but two remarkable residents. Jude and her neighbour Carole have made a good team when it comes to solving murders, but on this occasion, Carole is looking after her granddaughter when Jude (who is assuaging a guilty conscience over not using her local library sufficiently) attends an event there.

Burton St Clair, author of a best-selling book after many unsuccessful years of writing in pursuit of such fame, is speaking on the topic of a writer’s life. Jude is fascinated because when she knew him his name was Al Sinclair and he was married to her good friend Megan. That was many years ago, and a lot has changed. Not everything though. St Clair’s hands still rove where women are concerned, as Jude quickly discovers. When St Clair is found dead, Jude becomes a suspect as she was the last person to see him alive – but Carole steps into the breach to help find a very determined murderer.

The Daily Telegraph described Simon Brett as the ‘king of the witty village mystery’. Long live the King, say I.



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