Asking for Trouble

Name: Asking for Trouble
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ann Granger
ISBN: 9781666168105

Author: Ann Granger

Series: Fran Varady #1

Narrator: Henrietta Meire

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/26/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

Fran Varady is insolvent, unemployed, and, though for the moment she's got the leaky roof of the squat she shares in Jubilee Street over her head, she'll very soon be homeless thanks to the council eviction department. Her dreams of becoming an actress, nurtured when her father and grandmother were still alive, seem a long way off. But Fran is a survivor . . . which her former housemate, Terry, found hanging from the ceiling of her room, clearly is not. Terry, secretive and selfish, was far from popular with the rest of the household, but her death shakes the Jubilee Street Creative Artists' Commune, as the squat residents half jokingly call themselves. And, the more Fran discovers about the death of the young woman whose life briefly intersected with her own, the more she begins to see it was not all it first seemed.

About Ann Granger

Ann Granger is a British novelist of crime fiction. She writes the Mitchell and Markby, Fran Varady, Lizzie Martin, and Campbell and Carter series. Granger earned her modern languages degree from the University of London and went on to teach English in France for a year. Next, she worked at British consulates and embassies in various countries in Europe. After getting married, she ended up living in Zambia and Germany before coming back home to raise her family in England.

Granger began her career writing historical romance novels under the pen name Ann Hulme, beginning with the 1979 novel A Poor Relation. She began her crime fiction career in 1991 with the novel Say It with Poison, now writing as Ann Granger.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ct2

My 2nd top pick in the British female detective stakes. Fran Varady reminds me of my own youth in 1980s living in squats and shared houses.......more

Goodreads review by Simon

Originally published on my blog here in August 1999. After six or seven Mitchell and Markby novels, Ann Granger has written a detective novel outside the series, almost completely different in tone and background. Her central character, Fran Varady, is about to be thrown out of the condemned building......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Fun murder mystery with an interesting premise and perspective. Being homeless doesn't mean you can't try to solve a murder.......more

Goodreads review by Richard

I'd never heard of this series before randomly running across Asking for Trouble. I read the first page and was hooked - and how often does that really happen? I think the characters are exceedingly sympathetic and the two contrasting settings (a squat in 90's London and a horse farm run by an eccen......more

Goodreads review by Ingrid

Ein netter kleiner Krimi, der zum Ende hin eine überraschende Wende brachte. Das Buch ließ sich gut lesen, hat mir aber nicht den Schlaf geraubt. somit ist es Seniorentauglich.......more