Every Trick in the Book

Bernard O'Keeffe

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Muswell Press
30 April 2024

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: The DI Garibaldi series

‘When the body of Alex Ballantyne is found in Barnes Pond the police are baffled. Who could want to kill the newly retired teacher? Investigations bring them to St Jude’s, the prestigious private school where Ballantyne taught, and to the discovery that Ballantyne had been blackmailing several of his colleagues. Sex. Money. Drugs. It seems that Ballantyne knew all about his victims’ secrets, and they were prepared to pay to buy his silence. Is one of the St Jude’s staff the killer? And, if so, which one? DI Moriarty’s on the case and he’s soon discovering that nothing is quite as it seems.’So runs the blurb of Schooled in Murder, a crime novel written by Ben Joseph, who is found dead in Barnes Pond the morning after giving a talk as part of the Barnes Book Festival.

DI Garibaldi and his team are shocked to discover that the writer has been killed in exactly the same place, and in exactly the same way, as the victim in ‘Schooled in Murder’. When they look at the novel they see more connections with real life. Ben Joseph is the pseudonym of Liam Allerton who , like the victim in his novel, is a retired teacher. And he taught at St Mark’s, a school very similar to St Jude’s, the school in his novel.

But is that where the similarities end? How much of Allerton’s own life, and the lives of those he knew, had he put into his novel? And could the clue to the killer’s identity lie in its pages?

By: Bernard O'Keeffe
Imprint: Muswell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781739471606
ISBN 10: 1739471601
Series: The DI Garibaldi series
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bernard O’Keeffe worked in advertising before becoming an English teacher, most recently at St Paul’s School in London. The first two titles in the D I Garibaldi series are: The Final Round, 2021, and Private Lessons, 2023. He lives in leafy Barnes where the series is set.

Reviews for Every Trick in the Book

A first class mystery that threatens to blow apart the arrogance of a tight-knit social set. With this, his third novel, O Keeffe is on a roll to the big time. - The Daily Mail. Gentle humour, oodles of clues perfect comfort reading. - The Times. Terrific. - Robert Elm, BBC Radio London. How could any bookish fan of detective fiction resist such a premise? Well-paced, carefully plotted and written with what I can only imagine is a knowing smile, this was a delightful page-turning read. - Bookographia. A fantastic concept. - Mrs Book Burnabee. The storytelling is superb. As I was reading through, it felt like a movie playing in my head. - NetGalley.