'a whodunit you will not solve!'

In a town where everyone knows your business (and half of it is wrong), a body is found face down in a garden fishpond. Surely it's an accident? Open-and-shut. Seasonal paperwork. Forget it.

Detective Inspector Kit Colley (KC) has seen enough ‘simple’ cases to recognise the smell of something off. As he investigates, he finds himself drawn to Pattie Harding, a woman whose intelligence and warmth captivates him immediately. But Pattie is devoted to Mak Mason, a once-promising rock star now drowning in debt and reduced to working as a DJ at the local bingo hall. Then there’s Delia, Mak’s ex-wife, loud, furious, and very much not finished with Mak.

Kit faces an impossible choice between professional integrity and personal desire. In post-Brexit Britain, where everyone’s dreams are fading, the deeper Kit digs, the more difficult it becomes to separate fact from fiction.

Darkly funny, sharply observed, and threaded with a soundtrack of radio favourites, 'We can't all die like Buddy Holly' is a gripping regional crime novel where the truth is very slippery