The Postscript Murders

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021 - Fiction - 336 pages
"This droll romp is a latter-day Miss Marple." --Washington Post



Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie.



The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy's caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith's passing.



But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy's flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy. And each psychological thriller included a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and its author is found dead shortly thereafter--Detective Kaur begins to think that perhaps there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all.



And then things escalate: from an Aberdeen literary festival to the streets of Edinburgh, writers are being targeted. DS Kaur embarks on a road trip across Europe and reckons with how exactly authors can think up such realistic crimes . . .
 

Contents

The Linking Words
1
Panda Pop
5
Mindful Cappuccino
13
Preview Court
21
Woodland Animals
25
PS for PS
34
Shiny Shoes
42
Murder in the Title
52
A Damn Good Mystery
183
Not a Good Room
190
Looks like a Crime
195
Good OldFashioned Detective Stories
201
Safe House
213
The Wind in the Door
230
Amanuensis
240
Blue Blistering Barnacles
246

Buying and Selling
57
Millionaires Row
61
Gin and Tonic
70
Motive and Means
79
How the Other Half Lives
88
Tea and Biscuits
98
Two Candles
107
TBR
116
The Miners Arms
127
Education Salvation and Damnation
138
Parathas
150
Voices
159
Footsteps in the Dark
168
Not a Good Son
175
Murder Backwards
252
Miles from Home
260
Matching Pyjamas
267
Church Bells
275
Indian Summer
284
A Seaside Ladys Diary
291
Influencers
297
Time and the Hour
302
Back to Usually
308
Back Matter
314
Back Flap
317
Back Cover
318
Spine
319
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About the author (2021)

Elly Griffiths is the USA Today bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; The Postscript Murders; and Bleeding Heart Yard. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brighton, England.