A darkly comic tale about Mr Less-Than-Average in an average world from the No 1 Bestseller Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply & still living with his cantankerous mother he has become resigned to the world in which he lives
- the school bullies now pick on him in the workplace women still spurn him & his arch enemy is now his supervisor But then he arrives at work one morning to find the police on site A co-worker has been brutally murdered & her body abandoned in a ditch & the overwhelming evidence points to Martin
- especially when he can't or won't admit that he has an alibi When a second victim is found in the company bathroom things really conspire against Martin The one bright star on his otherwise bleak horizon is the beautiful & sympathetic Detective Anther Albada but even she's beginning to have her doubts about his innocence Could Martin be guilty? Or is he just misunderstood?