The Postscript Murders

In this fascinating new thriller by worldwide best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery ideal for fans of Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz, murder explodes off the page when crime novelists start turning up dead.

There is no need for concern when a 90-year-old woman with a heart ailment passes away. When Peggy Smith's caregiver, Natalka, starts to describe her death, Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur finds nothing unusual.

Natalka was in the police station with a purpose, though, as she was cleaning out Peggy's apartment and found an odd amount of crime books that were all devoted to her. Every psychological suspense novel also has an enigmatic epilogue: PS: for PS. When a shooter bursts into the apartment to take a book and the author is discovered dead a short while later, Detective Kaur starts to question whether or not an unsuspected death actually occurs.

And then things get really bad: writers are being attacked everywhere from the streets of Edinburgh to an Aberdeen literary festival. DS Kaur travels over Europe by car and wonders how precisely writers can conjure up such plausible atrocities.