The Appeal: The smash-hit bestseller

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That triggered the idea for a present-day true crime author attempting to rehash an old crime story for a low-budget beach read – and unexpectedly uncovers aspects to the case no one realised at the time. Thanks JJ for the review – sounds like I need to get my hands on this book sooner rather than later! Martin and Helen reveal that Helen lost a child to meningitis years ago, before their children Paige and James were born.Sam and her husband quickly integrate themselves well with the troupe and prove invaluable when young Poppy, the granddaughter of founder Martin Hayward, is diagnosed with inoperable and highly aggressive brain cancer. And the trends for authors revisiting those stories for a contemporary audience has been incredibly popular recently,” said Carvalho. Synopsis: The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals for an Arthur Miller play, when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Haywood and his wife Helen, the play’s star.

Photograph: Waterstones/PA ‘A real word of mouth hit’ … Janice Hallett’s book The Appeal has pipped Richard Osman to the post on the shortlist for the Waterstones book of the year. There’s something really timeless and universal about those familiar stories that is quite comforting in uncertain times. You know it’s been a tough year when people are talking about Christmas weeks and weeks before Halloween.G. Leonard Mansion Mysteries Margery Allingham Martin Edwards Max Afford Miles Burton Movies Mysterious Press Ngaio Marsh Nicholas Blake Noel Vindry Norman Berrow Novella OOP Orion P. Hallett’s The Appeal, in which law students Charlotte and Femi investigate a mystery in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood, dealing with everything from an amateur dramatic society’s disastrous staging of All My Sons to a dodgy charity appeal for a child’s medical treatment, has been shortlisted for the Waterstones book of the year award.