Early summer in Glendara and the town’s literary festival, Glenfest, is about to begin with Phyllis Kettle, the bookshop owner, at the helm. The big news is that Gavin Featherstone, the peninsula’s bestselling but reclusive writer, has been persuaded to take part. An eager crowd awaits his first public appearance in ten years. Unexpectedly charming, he is just about to read from his new memoir when he collapses and dies on stage…
Solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keefe discovers that she holds Featherstone’s will at the office, drafted by her predecessor. But just as it is confirmed that the author’s death was murder, his assistant appears in Ben’s office, brandishing a rival will which is very different from the one Ben has. Ben and Sergeant Tom Molloy are thrown into an investigation where they are pitted against a killer who has nothing left to lose…
ISBN 9781408718476
