Book description
Encouraged by his fourteen-year-old-daughter who recognises his
lonely widowhood, Bob Naylor decides to join a writers' circle,
believing he might gain some expert help with the poetry which keeps
spilling out of his imagination. He discovers a motley collection of
wannabe authors who he doubts he has anything in common with, but just
as he is deciding not to formally join the group he learns that a
publisher who addressed their last meeting has been killed and he
stays to see what might develop.
The Senior Investigating Officer, Henrietta Mallin, soon has all the
members of the group under suspicion and under pressure from her
superiors arrests their Chairman. Bob, the only writer who had not met
the dead man, is persuaded by some other members of the group to do
some investigating of his own.
And that is when the trouble really starts, because another death
turns the spotlight of suspicion on to him.
Peter Lovesey's
novels and short stories have won him awards all over the world,
including the Gold, Silver and Cartier Diamond Daggers of the Crime
Writers' Association, of which he was Chairman 1991-2. He recently won
the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives in Chichester.
