Mrs Smith's Suspects

A body in the library. Four likely suspects. One visually-impaired seventy-something sleuth. The second book in Jinny Alexander's delightful Mrs Smith's Suspects series. On an ordinary Tuesday morning in the library, Sally Smith's Book Club is enjoying a classic Whodunnit novel. Then one of the librarians is found dead in the non-fiction section, and Sally and her friends have a real-life Body in the Library mystery to solve instead. Four key suspects each had opportunity, but Sally can't sniff out a motive. Even worse: PC Finbury is on his way. Sally and her friends must work fast to identify the killer before the bumbling buffoon causes more chaos in the library. When the weapon is identified, the case seems closed. But is Finbury about to arrest the wrong person? Visually-impaired Sally knows it's not what was seen that will identify the real killer, but what she heard. Can a blind woman identify the true culprit, or will Sally's sleuthing cause further turmoil among the bookshelves?

A corpse in a cupboard. Four likely suspects. One visually-impaired seventy-something sleuth. It's nearly Christmas in the small English town of Little Wittering, and retired teacher Sally Smith is enjoying an afternoon in the hair salon. Until she sniffs out a corpse. With a body in the broom cupboard and a police-imposed lock-in until the culprit is caught, it doesn't take long to deduce someone in the salon is a cold-blooded killer. Sally's most challenging former pupil may have scraped through Police College but he's as incompetent as ever, so when the cops think they've collared the criminal, Sally's not sure they've made the right cut. Can a blind woman identify the true culprit, or will Sally's sleuthing make her the chief suspect, or the next victim? “Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud” is the first of Jinny Alexander's new British small-town cosy mystery series, Mrs. Smith's Suspects, and introduces a thoroughly entertaining modern-day version of a Golden Age locked room mystery.