Murder in Little Burning: A Novel

From the bestselling author of The Confessions and co-owner of The Best Book Store in Palm Springs, a retired TV writer of a hit British cozy detective show must solve an impossible murder in Little Burning—a quaint fictional 1950s English village that has been meticulously recreated by an elusive and volatile billionaire.

“Much like the bucolic town of Little Burning, this book is never what it seems. What starts out as a classic Agatha-Christie-style whodunit quickly reveals itself as something far more surprising, clever, hilarious...So good it’s outrageous.” —Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Never Here and The Last Ferry Out

Murders are impossible to get away with these days. Unless you recreate an English village that’s stuck in the 1950s...

When American clean-energy billionaire Bunny Hutch is injured in a near-fatal car accident, he decides to convalesce by recreating the fictional English village where his favorite cozy detective show was filmed. And why not? Without the murders, Little Burning is otherwise the perfect utopian community – friendly, safe, healthy, private. A place where everyone knows their neighbors and aren’t distracted by the horrors of modern life.

But when Hutch’s assistant dies in impossible circumstances soon after moving into town, he decides to hire the only man who could solve the case and restore balance to his idyllic community: Kennedy Mott, the down-on-his luck writer of the original detective show set in Little Burning.

What starts as a simple murder investigation lead by Mott and his reluctant partner Police Constable Astrid Barke, turns into a bigger conspiracy outside the cozy walls of Little Burning. Hutch’s fictional village isn’t at all what it seems, and soon a more sinister creation than Little Burning threatens to destroy Mott and everyone he loves, unless he can untangle what’s real and what’s fictional before the clock hits zero.