The Bingo Hall Detectives

Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023 Eyes down to find a killer who�_Ts playing to win�_� An irresistible slice of murder and mystery �_" there�_Ts a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they�_Tre the ones to catch the culprit�_� Jason Brazel is an out of work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family and mother-in-law, Amita. She knows everyone and everything that�_Ts going on in this corner of the Lakes. So when it�_Ts discovered that Madeline Frobisher, one of Amita�_Ts fellow regulars at the bingo club has died, found by the postman outside her crumbling country home close to Ullswater Lake, she senses immediately this is no accident. The trouble is, no one else seems to take her suspicions seriously. That is, until she enlists the help of her friends at the Penrith Bingo Club. Dismissed by many as eccentric, over the hill or out of touch, it turns out that it�_Ts unlucky for some that these amateur sleuths are on the case�_�