Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By Kerryn Mayne

** Publication Date 9 July 2024 **

4.5 stars / This review will be posted on goodreads.com today. 

Lenny Marks is an odd duck. Socially awkward, somewhat introverted, odd. A good person, as far as we can see, a schoolteacher for grade 5. She’s set her sights on befriending the two new prep teachers who are not only besties, but also the epitome of mean girls.
Lenny used to be another person. A person she’d rather forget, and mostly has. Her foster father called her Lenny, so she kept it. She also took their last name. Lenny Marks is who she is now. That’s what’s important.

But Lenny’s world is being turned upside down when she receives a letter about her former stepfather. Buried memories, long since compartmentalized and stored away, are coming back. Her foster mother Fay is still insistent that Lenny try to get a life, a real life, with friends and maybe a bit of therapy. Always though, Lenny insists she’s fine.

Until she’s not. And that is when the story gets really good. Throw in a cute grocer, a stolen dog, long lost family members, and a bit of criminal mischief and you have yourself one heck of a good story. Lenny will warm your heart.

Loved it. If this really is a debut novel, bravo. Written with so much humor even in the midst of reality, it is such a great read. Highly recommend it.