'Whip-smart and witty' Orlando Murrin

'What a terrific read! If Richard Osman had written Yes, Minister he might well have produced something like this' J.M. Hall

'An excellent job' Simon Brett

Politics can be murder. Sometimes literally.

Maxwell Murray's job is simple: keep his hapless boss Eliot Oakcroft - the MP for Middlebury-Mid - out of trouble. It's a full-time occupation. But when Miranda Cley asks for help freeing her imprisoned mother, an ordinary day turns extraordinary. Miranda's father was murdered - or so everyone believes. The trouble is, she's just seen him alive.

Max and his assistant Diana Burton can't help wafting the scent of a possible career-making miscarriage of justice Eliot's way, but as the mystery of Charlie Cley's disappearance unravels, they discover that some secrets are worth killing for.

A sharp and witty whodunnit from parliamentary insider David Weir, drawing on years of experience in the chaotic and crumbling corridors of power.



David Weir comes from Edinburgh and was a newspaper reporter, feature writer and film critic in Scotland and England for a decade before getting a job for 'a couple of years' at the House of Commons. Fast forward a few decades and he has worked in all its procedural offices and managed Select Committees including Treasury, Home Affairs and Standards. As he steps away from his parliamentary role, David is now at liberty to draw upon the experience of a ring-side seat in the Chamber of the House of Commons and the back-stairs knowledge of an invisible servant. The Honourable Member for Murder is his first novel.