Death Writes
By: Andrea Carter
Publish Date: 05 December 2023
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Mystery and Thrillers
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Good Reads Synopsis:
Solicitor Benedicta “ Ben” O’ Keeffe and her boyfriend Police Sergeant Tom Molloy race to Dublin after hearing that some strangers had moved in with Ben’ s parents. When they arrive, only Ben’ s parents and their strange lodger remain, but come morning the lodger has left. Not wanting to leave them alone, Ben persuades her parents to come and stay with her in Inishowen.
In Glendara, preparations are underway for Glenfest, Glendara’ s literary festival. Phyllis Kettle, the local bookshop owner, is especially pleased to have persuaded Gavin Featherstone, the local best-selling recluse writer, to take part.
The festival begins, and an eager crowd awaits Featherstone’ s appearance on stage. He is unexpectedly engaging, but when he stands to read from his new book, he stumbles and keels over on the platform.
Ben discovers that she holds Featherstone’ s will at the office, drafted by her predecessor. Soon, she’ s drawn into a complicated legal wrangle over the man’ s estate involving his family and the assistant who lived with him.
But nothing can yet be resolved, as a killer cannot inherit from their victim— and Gavin Featherstone’ s death was a murder.
Book Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book. I gave it 4 stars. This is the 6th book in a series, but in the intro it is stated that you don’t have to read them in order to understand what is going on. If I have time I will probably go back and read some of the books in this series.
In this story Ben is worried about her parents because she received a call from one of their neighbors. She talks her boyfriend in going with her to visit her parents. When she arrives she notice that they have a guest who has taken over the house and the running of things. This guest ends up leaving the house with somethings by the next day because Ben’s boyfriend is in law enforcement. This seems odd to Ben and makes her worry more for her parents. She ends up inviting them to come visit her for a while until her boyfriend can do a little investigating on this guest.
When they get to Ben’s house her parents aren’t sure how long they will stay because they are worried about this guest. They end staying a for while because of the festival that will be going in a few days and one of the guest speakers is one of the parents favorite authors.
A few days later during an interview the author ends up dying. What did he die from? Was it Murder and who would want him dead.
So this book had two mysteries in it and they both were fun to follow and try to figure out. The author death one had a few twist in it and I couldn’t figure it out.
The guest of her parents was a lot easier to figure out.
I highly recommend that you read this book.
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