Simon Brett is a well known mystery writer. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Malice Domestic Convention. As the acknowledged master of the modern whodunit, he is the writer responsible for the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter, Fethering and Blotto & Twinks series of crime novels. He is also the current president of the prestigious Detection Club in the UK.
He has created an entertaining amateur detective in his character, Jude and her accomplice Carole, two women of a certain age who live in the small village of Fethering. Jude and Carole live next door to each other and though this seems to be the 15th novel in the series, it is the first one I have read. But I was able to enjoy the storyline without needing to have read any of the others.
I really do not know why I did not study library science and become a librarian. When I see a book with the word library int he title, I cannot resist taking a look. A mystery about a murder in the library would just have to be entertaining. This book does not disappoint. Though it is a short developing plot and kind of repetitive , it still kept me interested in finding out who the killer was.
A guest author comes to the Fethering library to promote his new book. At the end of the evening where there were plenty of people hanging around drinking wine, with a belligerent guests who drank a bit too much, there is a dead body. With a a few suspects on the kist to interview, Jude is suspect number one, so she is quite anxious to find the real murderer. She and Carole set out to talk to everyone involved with the dead person and find out who had a more realistic motive so that she can steer the police away from herself.
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