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Funeral Music

Dilys Award nominee for Best Mystery 1997

 

The charity concert in Bath's famous Pump Room was vitally important to international cellist Sara Selkirk.  It was her chance to regain her lost confidence, the first time she was to perform in public since the death of her lover.  But if she’d known what was to happen that day, she would have lost her nerve completely.

The concert’s organizer Matthew Sawyer distressed many colleagues with his arrogance and lack of tact. But when his corpse is found floating in the Sacred Spring overflow of the Roman Baths, the question has to be asked: who hated him enough to kill him?

In the ensuing police investigation, many secrets are uncovered including a stolen needlework collection, an immigration racket, a headmaster's adulterous affair with his secretary. What, if anything, do any of them have to do with Sawyer's death?

Atmospheric and elegant, with its finely-woven plot and cast of complex, engaging characters, Funeral Music marks the assured debut of a new and highly potent addition to the crime fiction scene.

 

‘Morag Joss's distinguished debut demonstrates an interesting setting, characters both sympathetic and villainous who are drawn with wit and perception, good writing and a plot that combines tension with credibility.’
P D James

‘Funeral Music is an exceptionally accomplished first novel.  Beautifully written, it manages to be witty and touching at the same time … Music lovers will admire Morag Joss’s expertise and anybody who loves Bath has to buy this novel for the setting alone.’
(Bath Chronicle)

‘Both literate and sardonic, filled with persuasive characters.’
(Sunday Times)