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Hallett's debut, set in a sleepy town where an am-dram production of All My Sons is in the works, is funny and full of twists. Stuart Gibbs Szu-Yen Lin The Five Find-Outers The Knox Decalogue The Murder Room Theodore Roscoe The Three Investigators Tony Medawar Travelogue Mysteries TV Village Mystery Walter S. I haven’t read All My Sons for a while, and my memory is fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure it’s about a family who is hiding a dark and shameful secret. Readers don’t even discover who dies until about two-thirds of the way in, after which it’s a race to uncover the identity of not only the murderer—if it was truly a murder—but also the true faces of the people responsible for the many letters and missives included here. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker.

To this end, she introduces them to the Fairway Players, the local theater group of which she’s an incidental part. However, much of what’s here is very successful: the structural games played with each letter from barrister Roderick Tanner, QC (“[G]oing forward you must ask: who already knows [the victim] is dead and who doesn’t?This is pretty f[EXPLICIT] brilliant itself – a mind-bending, heartwarming mystery that is not to be missed. Janice Hallett studied English at UCL, and spent several years as a magazine editor, winning two awards for journalism. The minute we received a proof, we knew we had to invite Janice to join us on the metaphorical sofa for an interview. This ingeniously conceived whodunnit encourages the reader to turn detective in a murder case set against the backdrop of an amateur dramatic club.

but again they’re worked in with a clever subtlety, and add spice to an interesting mix of clashing possibilities we’re tantalisingly left to cobble together for ourselves: whether Dr. Sometimes I look in the mirror and tell myself ‘you can’t run from the third-person, past tense narrative forever’.Original, clever, devious - and never less than utterly compelling - this is a case you're about to become obsessed with. But then, as Steven so aptly puts it: “Turns out some grunts in the local firm are using this island to stash their contra. The Twyford Code is a tour de force – a genuinely complex puzzle with real clues to be solved, all told in the unreliable voice of a protagonist with a heartbreaking history of his own. Martin and Helen reveal that Helen lost a child to meningitis years ago, before their children Paige and James were born.