Fresh Pick | DEATH OF A COZY WRITER by G.M. Malliet

St. Just Mystery #1
July 2008
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Featuring: DCI Arthur St. Just
312 pages
ISBN: 0738712485
EAN: 9780738712482
Paperback
$13.95

Mystery Police Procedural
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2009 Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel

Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet

From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patriarch decides to weave a malicious twist into his well-worn plot. Gathering them all together for a family dinner, he announces his latest blow — a secret elopement with the beautiful Violet... who was once suspected of murdering her husband.

Within hours, eldest son and appointed heir Ruthven is found cleaved to death by a medieval mace. Since Ruthven is generally hated, no one seems too surprised or upset — least of all his cold-blooded wife Lillian. When Detective Chief Inspector St. Just is brought in to investigate, he meets with a deadly calm that goes beyond the usual English reserve. And soon Sir Adrian himself is found slumped over his writing desk — an ornate knife thrust into his heart. Trapped amid leering gargoyles and concrete walls, every member of the family is a likely suspect. Using a little Cornish brusqueness and brawn, can St. Just find the killer before the next-in-line to the family fortune ends up dead?

A great addition to cozy mystery genre!

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