A Tidy Ending: The latest dark comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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She has appeared on BBC Breakfast, BBC News Channel’s Meet the Author, interviewed on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5, and is a regular at literary festivals across the country including Edinburgh and Cheltenham. Although one person's distress is another person's couldn't-care-less, so I don't know how they decide which bits to take out. Maybe it was because she seemed a bit similar to the autistic main character of another book which I loved but this was not as well done?

Sometimes, it’s as though you haven’t spoken at all, as if your world and their world are running quite happily side by side, but there isn’t any way of moving between one and the other. Even when I disguised a lie in a wide avenue of truth, she could still manage to find it, because all she had to do was stare at me for long enough and out it would pop and wave at her” and “My mother is a surrogate for other people’s lives, stacking the empty shelves of her mind with nonsense” and “She said it kindly.She picked it up because quite by accident I’d left it right in the middle of the chair where she always sits.

Linda’s inner monologue is filled with insightful observations: “There are certain people who make you start to worry when they say there’s nothing to worry about. The backdrop of murders of young women in the village has everyone on alert, but also really keen to know all the details and speculate who’s responsible.Her depiction of Linda with her unique voice was superb and there were so many times when I found myself nodding along in agreement with Linda’s view of life or chuckling at her observations and asides. Adapted from a short story and inspired by the voice of audiobook reader Lissa Berry, A Tidy Ending is a character driven cozy mystery with an edge that will have you questioning everything.