Shrink Solves Murder
The warm and witty new murder mystery featuring a crime-solving therapist, from the Sunday Times bestselling author
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR***
**OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**
'Fantastic book: wickedly witty, with delightful, quirky characters and a cracking plot' JACQUELINE WILSON
'An assured and hugely enjoyable murder mystery debut. It's brilliant!' RICHARD COLES
'A joy. Cosy crime with a side order of psychological insight' JENNIE GODFREY
'Charming, cheering and eccentric . . . you'll be sad when your time is up' ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY
Her 3 o’clock just became a murder case...
When a body is found near Beachy Head, the police chalk it up to suicide — a tragic but not uncommon end in these parts.
But local psychotherapist Patricia Phillips isn’t convinced.
The victim? Her three o’clock patient, Henry Clayton.
The cause of death is supposedly self-inflicted. Yet Pat can’t shake the belief that someone wanted Henry Clayton dead. She spends her working life listening to histories and secrets, and she has a nose for when a story doesn’t quite ring true.
Drawn from the therapy room to the crime scene, Pat begins to notice what others appear to overlook.
At her side is her best friend Prichard — a home-brewer of fearsome, stomach-turning concoctions, an excellent cook, and a man who seems to get along with everyone. Which makes him useful for infiltrating village life.
As Pat and Prichard look beneath the village’s thin veneer of normality — one that barely conceals its appetites — they discover a killer hiding in plain sight.
Shrink Solves Murder is a warm, witty, and perceptive crime caper from the nation’s favourite therapist.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Artist and psychotherapist Perry (The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read) makes her fiction debut with a wonderfully witty cozy starring 62-year-old shrink Patricia "Pat" Phillips. Pat moved from London to the sleepy English village of Westlinke 10 years ago, and conducts her practice mostly via Zoom from a garden shed behind her cottage. When a body washes up near noted suicide spot Beachy Head and is identified as Henry Clayton, one of Pat's clients, local police are quick to assume he took his own life. Pat, however, knows that Henry was not suicidal, and believes he may have been murdered. She decides to investigate, roping her exuberant friend and amateur distiller Prichard Knowles into her inquiry. The duo's inquiry ruffles the feathers of plenty of people in the South Downs, including Pat's wealthy neighbors, who indulge in noisy hot-tub parties and have grandiose plans to build a spa and golf club on the nearby Nature Reserve. Pat and Prichard are charming, often hilarious company, and Perry takes time to develop their relationship rather than rushing from clue to clue. Readers will be eager for a sequel.
