Sometime of work is needed maybe she can work through everything that is happening. Her life changes when a letter from the parole board arrives at the school and Lenny’s life unravels big time, memories are coming back all while she is trying her best to make her mother, Fay happy by trying to get a life which means bringing people into her quiet orderly life. Lenny is thirty seven years old and teaches grade five at Selby South primary school, she likes order and a quiet life that runs the same she doesn’t like change very much, she has thirty six copies of The Hobbit, she watches re-runs of Friends and plays scrabble with her pretend housemate and loves her teaching job.

I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Lenny in this wonderful debut, Lenny is different, caring and finds it hard to make friends, but there is a really good reason for Lenny to be like this and I highly recommend that you get to know her and the other fabulous characters that are part of the story.įor twenty five years she has done her best to not think about the day her mother left her when she was just eleven years old the last words her step father said to her were “you did this” and it replays over and over even to this day, she then spent some time living with her grandmother and then she was moved to her foster parents Fay and Robert, where she lived happily although she never spoke about her past. 'Devilishly fun: top marks for Lenny Marks!' Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone A debut you won’t forget!’ Candice Fox, author of The Chase ‘Such a brilliant combination of light and dark, charm and suspense. With humour, heart and characters you come to love, this is a book you will devour now, and keep thinking about later!' Sally Hepworth, author of The Good Sister 'With Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, Kerryn Mayne makes a very grand entrance into the Australian literary scene. Kerryn Mayne’s stunning debut is an irresistible novel that’s both chilling and charming, suspenseful and uplifting.

And when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel. Then, out of the blue, a letter arrives from the Adult Parole Board. Recently though, if only to appease her beloved foster-mum, Lenny has set herself the goal of ‘getting a life’. 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. Now thirty-seven, Lenny prefers contentment and order over the unreliability of happiness and the messiness of relationships. Her stepfather’s parting words, however, remain annoyingly unforgettable: 'You did this.' She has spent the last twenty years not thinking about the day her mother left her when she was still a child.

Top marks for murder book