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Coffee & Crime Book Club

Lounge is teaming up with Simon & Schuster to bring you the Coffee & Crime Book Club, in collaboration with The Likely Suspects, their crime and thriller novel-loving community.

Each month, we’ll be choosing a Book of the Month to spotlight, with exciting giveaways on our socials to get your own physical or audiobook copy of the novel, as well as interviews with the author and the chance to discover your next favourite read.

And if you want to purchase the book through the links on this page, the money will go to a local bookstore based on your delivery address, so you’ll be giving back to your local community!

The first book for May will be A Plot to Die For by Irish comedian, actor, and author Ardal O’Hanlon. Click the link below to purchase, or scroll down to find out a bit more about the book.

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By Ardal O'Hanlon

A Plot To Die For

One of Ireland’s best-loved actors and comedians has written a new book! Known for his roles in Father Ted, Taskmaster, Derry Girls, Death in Paradise and many more, Ardal O’Hanlon has turned his pen to a brand new mystery, A Plot to Die For.

Set in a small Irish town, celebrity gardener Finn O’Leary returns to his hometown to care for his ageing mother and is roped into the Tidy Towns competition… and a murder investigation.

When an alto-baritone at his mother’s choir practice drops dead, Finn sets out to discover who has brought murder to Abbeyford alongside his mother, her carer Happiness and his best friend’s sister Aoife.

A Plot to Die For is the perfect book for readers who enjoy the warmth of Graham Norton and the mystery of Death in Paradise, all wrapped up in one small Irish town.

Small town Ireland, big time murder..

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What others are saying

“Wonderfully written, witty, twisty, intriguing and totally unputdownable” – Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal

“The story telling was wonderful – it was like being holed up in a tea shop with Maeve Binchy and Agatha Christie” – J. M. Hall, author of the Liz, Pat and Thelma series

“A small town mystery to die for!” – Andrea Carter, author of the Inishowen Mysteries series

 

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Ardal O'Hanlon

Q & A With The Author

Every great mystery has a beginning. What was the very first seed of an idea for A Plot to Die For?

I had a strong image in my mind of somebody dying horribly at choir practice during a rendition of What The World Needs Now. At the time, I was helping to care for my mother, who’d had a bad accident. It occurred to me that such a mother/son combination might be the basis for a good detective partnership. The son soon became a celebrity gardener, returning to his small town in Ireland after a successful career in the UK, who uses his horticultural skills to help solve murders.

Sum up A Plot to Die For in three words…

Funny, warm, twisty.

What fuels your writing sessions?

I am pretty abstemious once I get into a writing frenzy. I can go for hours without even a sip of water. But with perfect timing, my wife will often revive me with a cup of coffee and a Wagon Wheel.

What crime novel would you always pick up if you saw it in a Lounge Library?

The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr. It’s one of the original locked room mysteries. Apart from being quite characterful and amusing in its own right, it is a primer in the history of the locked room genre.

What would Finn from A Plot to Die For order at a Lounge and why?

As a keen gardener, I think he’d enjoy a Big Veggie Breakfast to fuel a day of amateur sleuthing.

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