Andrea Frazer

Andrea Frazer was am an American author best known for writing The Falconer Files series of books. She was also the author of the Belchester Chronicles series and the Sebastian Snail series. Frazer was a member of Mensa and worked as a lecturer in Greek. She had a family with four children. She had wanted to get into writing ever since she first read a book at the age of five, but it didn’t end up coming into her life until much later. Sadly, Andrea passed away in 2016. Death of an Old Git is the first book in the Falconer Files series. The book begins as DI Falconer and CS Carmichael are called by police to the town of Market Darley to investigate a man who was found drugged and strangled in his cottage. The investigators soon uncover multiple grudges by people against the old man and numerous familial connections to him. The normal calm of the village is disturbed as tempers began to flare. There is no obvious suspect and Falconer starts to feel he is losing his grip on the case. Worse, the body count is beginning to rise.