Carnage on the Committee by Ruth Dudley Edwards

When the chairperson of the pretigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances Robert Amiss wastes no time in summoning Baroness 'Jack' Troutbeck. Speculation that a killer may be targeting the judges worries the baroness not in the slightest - it's the prospect of immersing herself in modern literature that fills her with dread. But noblesse must oblige, even when it means joining the ranks of the superciliati sitting in judgement on the literati. With the baroness at the hem, the judges resume the task of whittling away at the short-list. But the killer, too, has resumed and is whittling away at the judges one by one... 


A light, amusing read full of not very likeable characters. Fortunately those that are likeable make up for the rest.