Name: Play to the End
ISBN: 9780385339186

Robert Goddard

Struggling actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton on the first Sunday in December with the other cast members and reluctantly takes on a investigation into the sinister stranger who is apparently stalking his estranged wife. By the author of Into the Blue. Original. 22,500 first printing.

Play to the End

Amanda Wells

I have mixed feelings about this book - because in truth I did enjoy it. 
I found it easy to read, and I did want to know how it would resolve.

But there was just enough farce there, just enough requirement to suspend disbelief that it felt a bit like an episode of a British murder serial. 

I think that's why my first impressions were that this was a black comedy that forgot to be darkly humorous. The characters had it in them - but it just never took that turn, and in the end it felt disappointing. 

If you want a quick and relatively uncomplicated read - much as when you want to watch an episode of Midsomer Murders - go for it. If you're after something real and or clever, maybe seek elsewhere.