A DEADLY HABIT a witty and addictive cozy murder mystery

About A DEADLY HABIT a witty and addictive cozy murder mystery

A middle-aged actor – and sometimes sleuth – with a script that needs divine intervention! One dead monk . . . A heavy drinking session . . . It’s looking like A DEADLY HABIT!

Charles Paris has an unexpected – or divine? – stroke of good luck when he is cast as a monk in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, thanks to the influence of his old acquaintance and fellow cast member, international TV superstar Justin Grover.

Unfortunately, the script is terrible, and Charles’s off-stage habits are less than pious. A heavy drinking session sees him passing out in his theatre dressing room and missing dinner – and with it the chance for long-lasting rapprochement – with his constantly estranged wife, Frances. Worse follows when Charles wakes up hungover and stumbles upon a dead body at the bottom of the stairs, then tells an unfathomable lie to the police! Can he atone for his sins by unmasking the killer?

Fans of Agatha Christie, The Thursday Murder Club, Anthony Horowitz, Alexander McCall Smith, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will love this hilarious cozy traditional mystery series featuring one of the funniest antiheroes in crime fiction. Written over a fifty-year-period, it perfectly captures life and contemporary attitudes in 1970s London – and beyond!