The Direction Of Murder (David Knight series)

David Knight returns… Crime writer David Knight finds himself a little out of his comfort zone when asked to develop the script for a film of one of his novels. And yet a week in a moated country house with A-list stars is too good to miss, even if the director is notorious for playing with the emotions of his actors, and everyone else. It is only when he discovers that his detective is being portrayed by a method actor, who appears to believe he actually is Tom Travis, that David becomes seriously uneasy. Nor does it help that he has caught the eye of the director’s glamorous, and very rich, wife. But that is only the start. David finds himself at the centre of events that not only involve unusual murder weapons and locked rooms, but sudden death. Can David find a way of keeping fiction and reality apart? PRAISE FOR THE APPEARANCE OF MURDER THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE DAVID KNIGHT SERIES ‘I’ve asked for it to be placed in my Christmas stocking.’ IAN RANKIN ‘The most teasingly pleasurable crime mystery I’ve come across this year.’ JOHN SUTHERLAND The Times, Books of the Year 2015 ‘In this witty and entertaining story…there is a good deal to relish.’ JESSICA MANN Literary Review ‘The best of existential crime.’ GUY FRASER-SAMPSON Author of the Hampstead Murders series ‘Uber-clever crime fiction.’ ASK MEN UK 10 best books of 2015‘It’s a brilliant crime novel full of typically British characters…If you like Tom Sharpe you’ll love this book.’ Goodreads Review