L. E. Bendon

Broschiertes Buch

The Weapon and the Fruit

Any Body Can Murder

Beschreibung

A serial killer with a taste for classic crime. Murder scenes staged all over West London. An invitation to play. Private Detective Lance Pomegranate has received an amusing email. At first it appears to be a typical scam. But unlike every other fraudster sullying his inbox, this one isn't asking for his bank details. The sender knows exactly who Lance is and is demanding that he play a dangerous game. Taking inspiration from Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, unhinged emailer Malcolm Dombattu has meticulously constructed a pattern of deaths designed to confuse and mislead. The victims don't realise they're playing, but Lance, barefoot as always and unwilling to abide by anyone's rules but his own, wades towards the deep end. As the bodies mount, the case turns personal, and when the killer strikes at Lance's deepest vulnerabilities, the detective is forced to question not just the nature of the game, but whether solving the case will cost him more than he can afford to lose. Beloved characters make a welcome return to assist Lance - some more willingly than others - in this sharp, suspenseful sequel to Four and Twenty Blackboards. Any Body Can Murder is a gripping crime novel where fiction meets reality, secrets refuse to stay buried, and every step closer to the truth comes at a price.

Autor

L. E. Bendon was born in 1983 and wishes Terry Pratchett were still not dead.He had built quite a satisfying musician's life for himself up until 2020 when it was suddenly on hold, for reasons we can all remember, and so he put the compulsory free time to use in an attempt to discover whether he could indeed write, polish and publish a novel.In creating irreverent detective Lance Pomegranate, along with his friends, associates and acquaintances, Bendon took to writing a mix of what he knows, what he's merely read about, and a few ideas he just likes.L.E. Bendon is from London, living in South India, where most people know him as a musician who spends an awful lot of his spare time writing novels on his laptop in cafés. Prior to his debut novel in 2025 all of his published work has been sheet music. He speaks a few languages well enough not to be confused or misled while abroad, though not well enough to translate his own books just yet. He loves cats but really prefers tortoises.He hasn't settled on what L.E. stands for. It is just a pen name after all. Perhaps he'll give a different response each time he is asked, always choosing names that are significant to him. For now, it can be Ludwig Elderberry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aneurysm Cupcake
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781068573828
• ISBN-10: 1068573821
• Artikelnr.: 74288122