About MEAT IS MURDER by Anne Crosse
FREE until September 29
Body parts, missing persons and hungry workers throw an Irish town into confusion in this darkly comic murder mystery.
Tired and hungry, and worried about paying the rent, Zofia, a worker in a recycling plant, cannot believe her luck when two vacuum-packed hunks of meat come down the conveyer belt.
Zofia’s hopes of her first square meal in weeks are dashed when her husband Stefan points out that should they eat it, they would become cannibals. Reluctantly they visit the local Garda and report their find.
The first job for Detective Robert Carroll and his sidekick James Sayder is to establish which unlucky person the not-so-tasty joints belong to. With no one visibly hobbling around town minus an arm or leg, their attention turns to the local meat packing plant, and the local butcher – a vegetarian – both of whom had the equipment to wrap the meat.
So begins a murder investigation that will have the whole town talking. Everyone has an angle on the story, not least the local newspaper whose endless stream of carnivorous headlines adds grist to the mill.
Lovesick and on his way to a brandy induced nirvana, Carroll is not much use. So, catching the killer, and finding the remains of the limbless victim, will fall on the wily Sayder. But will he keep on the straight and narrow or succumb to the strange machinations of a small Irish town?
MEAT IS MURDER is the third standalone book by Anne Crosse in this funny series of Irish mysteries. The full list of books is as follows:
1. DEATH IN MAGNERSTOWN
2. THE MYSTERY OF SUNDAYS WELL
3. MEAT IS MURDER
4. PURE POISON
All of these books are free with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback. The first three books are available in a box set titled SMALL TOWN MURDERS.
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Author Bio:
Anne Crosse wrote her first play aged ten, but had to wait forty more years for her plays to be broadcast by RTE Radio Drama.
In the sixties she worked in the Daily Mirror in Fleet Street copywriting, where she developed a passion for the written word.
She has had short stories published in magazines and anthologies. She now writes full length mystery fiction. Her debut novel, DEATH IN MAGNERSTOWN is available now. It is set in a fictional town in mid-Ireland, loosely based on Anne’s hometown.