- Published: 28 November 2023
- ISBN: 9781761345784
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $22.99
Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder
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- Published: 28 November 2023
- ISBN: 9781761345784
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $22.99
With Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, Kerryn Mayne makes a very grand entrance into the Australian literary scene. With humour, heart and characters you come to love, this is a book you will devour now, and keep thinking about later. Hard to believe it’s a debut! I can’t wait to see what this new Aussie talent comes up with next.
Sally Hepworth
Such a brilliant combination of light and dark, charm and suspense. A debut you won’t forget!
Candice Fox
Devilishly fun: top marks for Lenny Marks!
Benjamin Stevenson
An incredible debut which will have you both laughing and crying. I loved Lenny – a delightful, naive woman, determined to have a stable, predictable life. But life doesn’t work that way. This is a blackly funny, tender-hearted story of the dark and light of human nature, and ultimately, love, friendship, family and happiness.
Petronella McGovern, author of The Liars
In Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, Kerryn Mayne takes readers on a suspenseful, deeply emotional, and sometimes humorous journey. Lenny is a unique and remarkable character, who will have readers cheering for her from the very first page and thinking about her long after the book is finished. This stunning debut marks Mayne as a powerful new voice in Australian fiction.
Lisa Ireland, author of The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan
Compelling. Mayne breaks your heart and shows how sometimes life’s greatest mystery is the truth of our past.
R.W.R. McDonald
Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction
Shortlisted • 2023 • Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction
Danger Prize (BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival)
Winner • 2024 • Best Debut Fiction
International Thriller Awards
Finalist • 2024 • 2024 ITW Thriller Awards
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Kerryn Mayne's irresistible debut, Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, is chilling yet charming, and suspenseful yet uplifting. Whether you're a crime and mystery lover, or looking for a darkly humorous summer read, this is not one to miss! Lenny Marks is good at not remembering. She has spent the last twenty years not thinking about the day her mother left her when she was still a child. Her stepfather’s parting words, however, remain annoyingly unforgettable: 'You did this.' Now thirty-seven, Lenny prefers contentment and order over the unreliability of happiness and the messiness of relationships. She fills her days teaching at the local primary school, and her nights playing Scrabble with her pretend housemate, watching reruns of Friends and rearranging her thirty-six copies of The Hobbit. Recently though, if only to appease her beloved foster-mum, Lenny has set herself the goal of ‘getting a life’. Then, out of the blue, a letter arrives from the Adult Parole Board. And when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel. Worse, she starts to remember . . . Order your copy here: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/lenny-marks-gets-away-with-murder-9781761048043
Kerryn Mayne's irresistible debut, Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, is chilling yet charming, and suspenseful yet uplifting. Whether you're a crime and mystery lover, or looking for a darkly humorous summer read, this is not one to miss! Pre-order from our website now: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/lenny-marks-gets-away-with-murder-9781761048043
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