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Black Comedy set in Froxvale, a nebulous area on the Welsh Marches, in 1953, the year of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the conquest of Everest.
A resident nurse is murdered in the early hours, though her death is dismissed as accidental or suicidal - despite there having been two almost identical preceding events.
There have been rumours that the residents are badly treated and all is far from well in the home. The Cluedo Five, no strangers to unorthodox behaviour despite their age, are diverted from their routine when the replacement nurse reveals problems of her own...
A resident nurse is murdered in the early hours, though her death is dismissed as accidental or suicidal - despite there having been two almost identical preceding events.
There have been rumours that the residents are badly treated and all is far from well in the home. The Cluedo Five, no strangers to unorthodox behaviour despite their age, are diverted from their routine when the replacement nurse reveals problems of her own...
170 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 29, 2021
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Mac Fletcher
7 books30 followersI was born and still live in South Staffordshire UK. I loved telling stories (tall ones of course) from an early age, and writing developed from there. At six or seven I realised one needs far less nerve to tell stories on paper than in public, and if they're lousy no one ever need know (you've guessed, I've written some lousy ones).
I have a lot of interests, though the narrowboat my wife and I bought and fitted out remains the greatest of my passions. The UK waterways are a microcosm: an echo of Georgian times, with a pace of life to match.
Many of my hobbies are in some way creative: gardening, drawing & painting, computer graphics, photography ... and of course writing. Too old for most active sports, and never brilliant either, I try to keep fit by swimming regularly - and walking.
I've written several full-length novels, but despite a fair amount of interest having been shown in my work, I remained unpublished in print until Death Must Go On! Now available on Kindle, it was my first attempt at black comedy, and as such a total departure from my other novels. I'm still not sure how well it works, but the fact that quite a few people have expressed the pleasure they took in reading it has made the effort worthwhile... to the point that I have a similar novel in progress.
My other published books - both on Kindle - are basically mystery thrillers with a mildly subjective view of the characters and, I hope,a degree of humour.
I will welcome ANY comments on my work (I won't be a hypocrite, especially kind ones) and welcome all correspondence via email to macfletcher043@gmail.com
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this - and my books I hope!
Posted below are two links to independent reviews:
http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews...
://www.angelfire.com/ok4/mollymartin/Fle...
Mac Fletcher
I have a lot of interests, though the narrowboat my wife and I bought and fitted out remains the greatest of my passions. The UK waterways are a microcosm: an echo of Georgian times, with a pace of life to match.
Many of my hobbies are in some way creative: gardening, drawing & painting, computer graphics, photography ... and of course writing. Too old for most active sports, and never brilliant either, I try to keep fit by swimming regularly - and walking.
I've written several full-length novels, but despite a fair amount of interest having been shown in my work, I remained unpublished in print until Death Must Go On! Now available on Kindle, it was my first attempt at black comedy, and as such a total departure from my other novels. I'm still not sure how well it works, but the fact that quite a few people have expressed the pleasure they took in reading it has made the effort worthwhile... to the point that I have a similar novel in progress.
My other published books - both on Kindle - are basically mystery thrillers with a mildly subjective view of the characters and, I hope,a degree of humour.
I will welcome ANY comments on my work (I won't be a hypocrite, especially kind ones) and welcome all correspondence via email to macfletcher043@gmail.com
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this - and my books I hope!
Posted below are two links to independent reviews:
http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews...
://www.angelfire.com/ok4/mollymartin/Fle...
Mac Fletcher
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March 2, 2021
I have to say that this was one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a long time. The cast of characters were really colorful ... the elderly ones, Penny, the law enforcement, the criminals. This is a mystery that just seemed to stumble along in a charming, old-fashioned way. I did have trouble with a good bit of the dialogue and I suspect that I sometimes missed some of the humor because of that. But, it was okay since it all seemed part of the charm of the story.
I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway for this honest review.
I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway for this honest review.
February 20, 2021
This is a beautifully written book with lots of laugh out loud moments – I learned that the Ouija board was the 50’s equivalent to Googling. I loved meeting the characters – the resourceful and adorable Cluedo Five, the dodgy members of the local constabulary, young Penny and her mother. It immerses the reader in a 1950’s England, charming yet brutal, and takes them on an exciting journey of murder and mystery, friendship, and hope. All this and lashings of acerbic black comedy. I recommend this book to all connoisseurs of darkly comic crime fiction. I must add that reading this book put me in a very good mood and I came away with a more positive outlook on life. Thank you Mac Fletcher, next I'm reading the sequel Death Must Go On! Be great to be back in Froxvale!
February 17, 2021
This is a fun often comical read as a group of five elderly patients in a nursing home during the year of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II *1953) run amok helping to solve a case of possibly murder and black mail. The story is well plotted, nicely written and does up really nice characters for the time and place. Ends up good, as they finagle the local not too bright and/or uncaring police in helping them solve the problems. Not being English I had to look up a lot of the strange words in the story but that fun also…I have to go find me some sherbet bombs!
June 8, 2021
I struggled with this book -- to like it, to like the characters and to care about the story.
It was slow to get started. The use of dialectic language made reading difficult as I struggled to "hear the accent" of a given character, to understand the local slang -- it distracted from the storytelling.
Everyone and everything was overly twee and contrived.
I enjoy cozy mysteries and quirky characters, but this one just did not do it for me on many levels.
Thank you to the author and publisher for providing this copy to me through Goodreads Giveaways.
It was slow to get started. The use of dialectic language made reading difficult as I struggled to "hear the accent" of a given character, to understand the local slang -- it distracted from the storytelling.
Everyone and everything was overly twee and contrived.
I enjoy cozy mysteries and quirky characters, but this one just did not do it for me on many levels.
Thank you to the author and publisher for providing this copy to me through Goodreads Giveaways.
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