The Murder Club

by Billy Conn

Frank Doyle is dead. If he wasn’t the postmortem would have seen to it. The classic MG he was working on had fallen on him. An accident? Routine police work had Detective Sergeant Powell not discovered the Murder Club. That changed everything. Kaleisha Powell had often thought of writing a detective story. Would there ever be a better time than when faced by the combined forces of Holmes, Poirot, Morse, Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, Maigret and Vera? Did one of them kill Frank Doyle? Another corpse – in a locked room. Connected, but off limits. Not her case. Tantalizing though. Challenged by the Murder Club, Kaleisha begins to write. A girl and her dog disappear from a village and no one sees anything. It’s not easy to keep the worlds of fiction and real investigation separate. She was finding the writer was less in charge than she had thought. Then there is the fact that Sergeant Kaleisha Powell herself may not be all that she seems.

390 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 22, 2020

Reviews

[Natasha Polak · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot was an interesting concept, but it was not an easy book to get into. There were a lot of characters to keep track of, and the subplot of the detective’s writing hobby at times was more thought out than the actual plot. I felt the ending was a bit anticlimactic except for the story the detective finished. I’d still be curious to see other work by this author, just to see if it was a matter of writing style, or the fact of him being a British author to this Yankee.