From a Well-Wisher: The Complaints Department
(2026)(A book in the Brandling House Cosy Crime Mystery series)
A novel by Lee Brook
Everybody loved Gerry Ingram.
He remembered your husband's regiment. He knew which of your tablets went with food. He did card tricks at the good table by the window, and if you'd had bad news, he'd be knocking at your door before you'd put the phone down.
So when he's found dead in his armchair one March morning, nobody at Brandling House is surprised that it was his heart.
Until a pathologist declines to sign the certificate.
DI Isabella Wood has spent four months in that building, two days a week, being trusted by people the system has already let down once. Now she has to work out who Gerry Ingram actually was.
Then the evidence starts arriving, and all of it points at someone you would least expect.
And absolutely refusing to explain themselves. Not to the police. Not to their family. Not even to the three neighbours who decide, over a pot of tea in Flat 3, that they are going to find out what happened, whether anybody asks them to or not.
Because there is one thing a retired postman, a retired bookkeeper and a retired solicitor have that a murder inquiry doesn't.
The kettle is always on, and everybody tells them things.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
He remembered your husband's regiment. He knew which of your tablets went with food. He did card tricks at the good table by the window, and if you'd had bad news, he'd be knocking at your door before you'd put the phone down.
So when he's found dead in his armchair one March morning, nobody at Brandling House is surprised that it was his heart.
Until a pathologist declines to sign the certificate.
DI Isabella Wood has spent four months in that building, two days a week, being trusted by people the system has already let down once. Now she has to work out who Gerry Ingram actually was.
Then the evidence starts arriving, and all of it points at someone you would least expect.
And absolutely refusing to explain themselves. Not to the police. Not to their family. Not even to the three neighbours who decide, over a pot of tea in Flat 3, that they are going to find out what happened, whether anybody asks them to or not.
Because there is one thing a retired postman, a retired bookkeeper and a retired solicitor have that a murder inquiry doesn't.
The kettle is always on, and everybody tells them things.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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