Peacock's Tale — Stuart David

Murder, Mayhem and Homeopathic Whisky

The first time Peacock Johnson is accused of murder it's all just a bit of fun, a cameo appearance in a TV crime drama. The second time, it's deadly serious- and Peacock is suddenly fighting for his life, on the run and driven to desperate lengths to try and clear his name.

"Peacock and Bev are fantastic characters." Graham Linehan (writer of The IT Crowd, Black Books and Father Ted)


Peacock Johnson's forgotten his wife's birthday. Again. But that's alright -- Peacock's an ideas-man, and he's got a plan to cover up his mistake.

Unfortunately, Peacock's plan goes so far off the rails that his wife leaves him, and he ends up the prime suspect in a murder inquiry.

Not to worry: Peacocks got another idea. He's found out where the famous crime writer Ian Rankin lives, and he's going to break into Rankin's house and ‘persuade' him to work out who really committed the murder Peacock's been accused of.

What could possibly go wrong?

Follow Peacock's hilarious attempts at trying to clear his name and win his wife back in this laugh-out-loud comedy. As Ian Rankin himself said in The Independent, after reading the book, “I came across as a bit of a wimp, but it was good. It was also, in current parlance, a mindf**k. You think, 'Hang on, if he's not real, and I am real, maybe he's real and I'm not real...'"

So come on in and enjoy the fun as Peacock careers from disaster to disaster, trying to get his life back on track.