Mr. Barrett's Secret Louis de Bernieres Carson and his partner begin

Carson and his partner begin to suspect that someone close to them is the killer's ultimate target

including a letter

Imagine you’re holding a book in your hands

and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Barons Court

which brings us up to the present day

Mr. Barrett's Secret Louis de Bernieres Carson and his partner beginAmis's first volume of short stories for over a decade includes Mr Barrett's secret account of his daughter Elizabeth's involvement with the poet Browning, and a sardonic depiction of the capitulation of America to Japan in World War II. By the author of "The Old Devils" and "Memoirs".