'Devilishly fun: top marks for Lenny Marks!' Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone A debut you won’t forget!’ Candice Fox, author of The Chase ‘Such a brilliant combination of light and dark, charm and suspense. With humour, heart and characters you come to love, this is a book you will devour now, and keep thinking about later!' Sally Hepworth, author of The Good Sister 'With Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, Kerryn Mayne makes a very grand entrance into the Australian literary scene. Kerryn Mayne’s stunning debut is an irresistible novel that’s both chilling and charming, suspenseful and uplifting. And when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel. Then, out of the blue, a letter arrives from the Adult Parole Board. Recently though, if only to appease her beloved foster-mum, Lenny has set herself the goal of ‘getting a life’. She fills her days teaching at the local primary school, and her nights playing Scrabble with her pretend housemate, watching reruns of Friends and rearranging her thirty-six copies of The Hobbit. Now thirty-seven, Lenny prefers contentment and order over the unreliability of happiness and the messiness of relationships. Her stepfather’s parting words, however, remain annoyingly unforgettable: 'You did this.'

Crime, comedy and fashion, it’s a layer cake of which any tea lady would be proud.She has spent the last twenty years not thinking about the day her mother left her when she was still a child. Their comfortable marriage is wobbling and Hazel wants to know why.Īnd then British model Jean Shrimpton makes her appearance on Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in a white mini dress a shocking four inches above the knee and Empire Fashions is faced with a crisis. Meanwhile, there’s a puzzle closer to home since Hazel’s husband Bob, who works out of town and comes home for the weekend, is plainly out of sorts and missing in action. Irene, once married to safecracker Fred “Tweezers” Turnbuckle, has acquired a useful set of skills along the way including breaking and entering, stealing motorbikes and knowing how best to use a cosh, all of which will come in very handy as Hazel pursues the mystery of the face at the window. Take Irene Turnbuckle, the slapdash tea lady from Silhouette Knitwear, who is never without “a cigarette glued to her lower lip, or a pipe gripped between her teeth”, and a hacking cough.

Top marks for murder book