The Postscript Murders"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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