Shot in the Dark, March 2019

A SHOT IN THE DARK by Lynne Truss

March 14, 2019

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Born May 31, 1955, in Kingston-upon-Thames, England. Education:

University College London, B.A. (with honors), 1977. Addresses:

Home: Sussex, England; Bloomsbury, England.

E-mail:info@lynnetruss.com.

CAREER:

Journalist and novelist…. Daily Mail, London, critic; Sunday Times,

London, book reviewer. Host of British Broadcasting Corporation

(BBC) Radio-4 series Cutting a Dash. Member of judging panel,

Asham Awards, 2005-06.

NOVELS

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, 1994.

Tennyson's Gift, 1996.

Going Loco, 1999.

Cat Out of Hell, 2015.

Lunar Cats, 2016

OTHER

Making the Cat Laugh: One Woman's Journal of Single Life on the

Margins, 1995.

Tennyson and His Circle, 1999.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to

Punctuation, 2004.

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today; or,

Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door, 2005,

The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels, 2005.

A Certain Age (radio drama), Profile 2007.

A Certain Age Volume 2: The Men's Monologues (audiobook), BBC

Audiobooks 2007.

Also Children’s editions of the grammar guides.

A Shot in the Dark

On the verge of revealing the criminal mastermind behind a 1945

unsolved mystery, a famed theater critic is shot dead, leaving
Sergeant Jim Brunswick and Constable Twitten to solve both the
decades-old crime and the more recent murder.

Lynne Truss Home Page, http://www.lynnetruss.com/

Read-alikes:

Death in Paris  by Emilia Bernhard

Reason:  These debut mysteries provide engaging, witty characters

attempting to solve murders in a comedy of manners. Shot is more

of a historical cozy starring a quirky rookie in London, while the

contemporary Death introduces two American amateur sleuths in

Paris. -- Shannon Haddock

Mystery writer's mysteries (Most Recent: Apr 2019) by Becky Clark

(First book in series) A mystery author becomes the prime suspect

after her agent is discovered murdered exactly as described in her

new, unpublished manuscript and must work to clear her name in

the first novel of a new mystery series.

Cat DeLuca mysteries (Most Recent: Nov 2016) by K. J. Larsen

Set in Chicago, this upbeat mystery series features a sassy, newly

independent heroine who opens the Pants on Fire Detective Agency.

The ensuing fast-paced murder investigations are told in a

conversational style laced with wit and laugh-aloud humor, spiked

with a touch of romance and lightly coated with charm.

Dahlia Moss mysteries (Most Recent: Jan 2018) by Max Wirestone

Unemployed geek Dahlia Moss may not be the world's most likely

detective, but she's here to get the job done in her own well-

intentioned (if misguided) way. Dahlia sometimes makes dubious

decisions, but she always finds a way to solve the case in this witty

and intricately plotted series of mysteries.