March 19, 2021
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
A 90 year old woman named Peggy Smith is found dead in her flat by her caregiver. At first, it seems the woman died of natural causes (she IS 90, after all), but when the caregiver is cleaning out the flat, she notices a large number of crime novels dedicated to Peggy: PS: to PS.
It turns out that Peggy was a murder consultant for a number of popular writers, with a knack for thinking up clever and unusual ways to kill someone. But this time, someone wanted Peggy dead. The caregiver, an elderly (but very dapper) neighbor, and the owner of the local cafe team up to solve the crime with one of the local detectives, DS Harbinder Kaur. But then other writers start turning up dead, and the amateur sleuths pursue a lead to a popular book festival in Edinburgh.
This is the second book in the Harbinder Kaur series, but it can be read as a stand-alone. The characters are charming and the police detective is nicer than a lot of crime fiction cops.
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