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‘A rising star of crime fiction, Bernard O’Keeffe gives us an enthralling mixture of mystery and murder’ Best Novels to Give This Christmas, Daily Mail
‘Perfect comfort reading’ The Times
‘Terrific’ Robert Elms
‘Ingenious’ Daily Mail
Sex, Money, Drugs – DI Garibaldi is on the case.
‘When the body of Alex Ballantyne is found in Barnes Pond police are baffled. Would would kill the newly retired teacher? Investigations reveal that Ballantyne had been blackmailing several of his colleagues. Sex, money, drugs – it seems he knew all their secrets’
So runs the blurb of Schooled in Murder, the crime novel written by Ben Joseph, the pen name of Liam Allerton, ex-teacher and writer, found dead in Barnes Pond the morning after giving a talk at the Barnes Book Festival.
The eerie similarity between the death of the writer and his character leads DI Garibaldi and his team back to the book, where they discover more connections to real life. As they delve into the links between fiction and reality, the question looms: could the key to the writer’s murder by hidden within the pages of his own novel?
