But when Peggy dies, one of her caretakers, Natalka, gets suspicious for a number of reasons. No in your face blood and guts, just a 90 year old woman who is such an expert on how to kill people that authors use her as their 'murder consultant'. The Postscript Murders gives us a cozy murder mystery, in the style of Agatha Christie. DS Kaur embarks on a road trip across Europe and reckons with how exactly authors can think up such realistic crimes. 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.Īnd then things escalate: from an Aberdeen literary festival to the streets of Edinburgh, writers are being targeted.

Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy’s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith’s passing.īut 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.

The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. 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.

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