A Shot In The Dark: The prize-winning mystery for fans of The Thursday Murder Club (A Constable Twitten Mystery) - Tapa dura

A farce that gathers hilarious pace with every page . More Marx Brothers than Agatha Christie, this is crime fiction turned on its head - a giddy spell of sheer delight (Daily Mail)

[An] entertaining new crime series . Truss's affection for a rollicking, twisty caper has transferred to the page with ease . There's some fine storytelling on display here (Observer)

Funny, clever, charming, imaginative, nostalgic and gently satirical (The Times)

With plenty of brightly coloured bucket-and-spadery, including ghost trains and Punch and Judy and variety acts, this clever, tongue-in-cheek escapade is a perfect summer read (Crime Books of the Month Guardian)

Pitch-perfect send-up of 1950s Brighton with nods to Graham Greene ... The ingenious plot involves such period attractions as the Ghost Train, theatrical landladies, Pathé News and cherry Genoa cake. Hilarious (Sunday Times Crime Club)

One of those rare books that actually makes you laugh out loud ... Impossible not to read in one sitting (Sunday Times)

A Shot in the Dark is an intricately plotted murder mystery that's darkly humorous and beautifully written (Herald)

It takes a writer of Lynne Truss's wit and intelligence ... to take on both the cosy and comic fields, shaking them up to forge something fresh and beguiling ... Delightfully witty (Barry Forshaw i)

This book is as much a comedy as a crime novel. Lynne Truss is a national treasure, and this is a gentle, complicated, humorous tale (Literary Review)

Truss's new crime novel is an unqualified masterpiece (Glasgow Herald)