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Newlywed Kitty Bryant is feeling a little underwhelmed by married life. She is less involved with her grandmother’s hotel but has a limited role in her husband’s private investigato business. She is encouraged to help organise the town’s beauty pageant to keep her busy. But someone doesn’t want the pageant to go ahead and then […]

A baby’s pram is pulled from a lake and a tiny skeleton is found inside. A woman confesses but her story doesn’t match up with the evidence… The Bone House is the third book set in Slayton. I have not read the previous books: there are mentions of past events but no spoilers. This book […]

A man is left brutally beaten in a park with words cut into his flesh. His dying words tell the police to look for a twin. Within days there are more victims, all horrifically killed and words carved into their bodies. Can DS Smith find the killer before more people are attacked? The Twin is […]

1911, Scotland. Maud McIntyre defies convention by setting up her own detective agency with her former maid Daisy Cameron. Their first case begins as a jewel theft but swiftly turns into a murder investigation… The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency is the first book in a new series to feature Maud and Daisy as they establish […]

A dog walker makes a grisly discovery on a beach: a decapitated man and a woman buried alive in the sand. DS Ashley Knight and her team are in charge of the case but there are soon more bodies… Death on Cromer Beach is a police procedural and crime thriller set in Norfolk. It is […]