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

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Linda is friendless, she will hold onto any shred or crumb of companionship, which all ends up being fantasy. Joanna Cannon weaves together a self-actualisation storyline featuring an endearingly quirky protagonist, with lashings of dark humour, revenge and jaw-dropping twists.

By the time a third body is found, people are talking about a serial killer, anonymous threatening letters are circulating, and Linda’s mother Eunice is getting anxious: the restlessness in the neighbourhood reminds her a little too closely of the reason she and Linda left Wales thirty years earlier. A story filled with wonderfully unconventional characters who seem to fit a bit outside of the box, but live a quiet and relatively conventional life in a relatively small and quiet suburban community - until news breaks about what they will soon come to believe is a serial killer.This is a mystery for those who enjoy the thrill of solving puzzles, rather than the thrill of the chase. BOOKLOVER HUB: The Booklover Hub provides another channel for authors and indie publishers to make a connection with a book reviewer. The book and I got off on the wrong foot almost immediately, when two identical phrases are used within pages of each other— “perched on the arm of a settee. Joanna Cannon’s first two novels, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (2016) and Three Things About Elsie (2017), were both Sunday Times bestsellers and Richard and Judy picks.

Linda lives a quiet (if unfulfilling) life with her husband, Terry, in a peaceful town—until young women start to go missing. Soon, she begins escaping into different worlds to avoid the anxiety, and starts making “friends” who don’t truly have her best interests at heart. Linda comes close to being pitied but even that disappears as the story progresses and she turns quite annoying.

Linda is an unusual character, she's very naive, socially awkward, doesn't understand sarcasm or social cues and seems as if she's somewhere on the autism spectrum. All the tiny details, all the quiet, unnoticed edges of the world have been taken away, and it’s only when they’re gone you realize how much you depended on them to make sense of everything else.