The DI Garibaldi
2 primary works
Book 3
So runs the blurb of Schooled in Murder, a crime novel written by Ben Joseph, who is found dead in Barnes Pond the morning after giving a talk as part of the Barnes Book Festival. DI Garibaldi and his team are shocked to discover that the writer has been killed in exactly the same place, and in exactly the same way, as the victim in Schooled in Murder'. When they look at the novel they see more connections with real life. Ben Joseph is the pseudonym of Liam Allerton who , like the victim in his novel, is a retired teacher. And he taught at St Mark's, a school very similar to St Jude's, the school in his novel. But is that where the similarities end? How much of Allerton's own life, and the lives of those he knew, had he put into his novel? And could the clue to the killer's identity lie in its pages?
Book 4
Behind every mask lies a killer truth. Mick Jagger. Bob Dylan. Paul McCartney. David Bowie. Debbie Harry. They re icons. Legends. And together they form the ultimate supergroup - The Okay Boomers. It s quite some band and it s quite incredible to see them playing the Bull s Head in Barnes on a Sunday night. But all is not as it seems. Hiding behind lifelike masks are five local celebrities. They re keen to keep their identities secret, but they are all unmasked when a man is found dead in the lead singer s garden the morning after their post-gig party. Who is the victim? Why was he wearing the lead singer s Mick Jagger mask? And why have all the other masks disappeared? Enter DI Garibaldi, the Met s literary, country-music loving, non-driving detective. As he investigates the five members of The Okay Boomers a fading rom-com heartthrob, a high-profile comedian, a controversial TV pundit, a popular poet, and a national treasure one thing becomes clear: behind every mask lies a killer truth.