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Lainie Anderson
Summer, Adelaide, 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but don't let that fool you. She's a household name, wrangling wayward…
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Gareth Ward, Louise Ward
Two small-town booksellers (and their cowardly dog) solve a decades-old murder-mystery in this witty debut novel, full of literary clues, sparkling dialogue, and comedic insights into the world of bookshops.
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Steven Carroll
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The…
Ram Murali
The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel.
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Amanda Hampson
Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series, a runaway bestseller of the year.
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Aoife Clifford
So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her?
Bruce Nash
A wickedly funny and genuinely moving novel about memory, language and love, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window.
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Jessica Bull
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth... A Jane Austen-inspired murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett
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Elizabeth Coleman
A charming and cheeky murder mystery, perfect for fans of Phryne Fisher, The Thursday Murder Club and The Tea Ladies
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Richard Osman
The fourth book in the Trecord-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British ntreasure RichardOsman
Mia P. Manansala
The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer….
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Joanna Wallace
A darkly funny and compulsive thriller, introducing your new favourite part-time serial killer
Peter Swanson
This year's must-read festive chiller, a classic countryhouse murder mystery.
Julie Owen Moylan
Soho, London, 1958. Three women. One boarding house. A secret that could shatter everything.
Sophie Hannah
The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot - legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice - puts his little…
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Jesse Sutanto
A must-read cozy crime mystery from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties.
Cecily Gayford (ed.)
As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nightfall lingers and a sun-drenched picnic can end in panic. No matter…
Kat Ailes
Motherland meets Midsomer Murders in this fresh and funny mystery about a group of soon-to-be mums who turn detective when there's a murder at their antenatal class.
Kate Mascarenhas
A grand hotel, a famous opera star and a psychoanalyst with a hidden agenda.
Shelby Van Pelt
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty…
Sarah Smith
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead.
Fiona Britton
Phryne Fisher meets Underbelly in an arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper.
Alex Hay
Dazzling, stylish and wildly entertaining, The Housekeepers lets loose an outlandish alliance of women you'll never forget...
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Mark Billingham
The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning number one Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham introduces a true one off…
Jessica Fellowes
A Golden Age-style mystery bursting with period detail and set amid the Mitford household, The Mitford Murders is the glittering start to a thrilling and sumptuous new series written by…
A delightfully sharp and clever murder mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club
L T Shearer
Charming cosy-crime fiction featuring a very special calico cat, for fans of The Thursday Murder Club.
Sulari Gentill
The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship - and shows that words can be the most treacherous weapons of…
Robert Thorogood
The first in a stunning new series introducing the Marlow Murder Club!
Nita Prose
Polished to perfection, the hotly-anticipated & Sunday Times bestselling debut
R.W.R. McDonald
A schoolgirl and her uncle and his boyfriend have two weeks to solve a murder in a small town style forgot…
Alex Pavesi
One of the year’s most entertaining crime novels (Sunday Times) - this summer’s most original mystery debut
All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister…
Vivian Conroy
Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new series that whisks you away to the most gorgeous escapist destinations!
Janice Hallett
The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Appeal.
Anthony Horowitz
Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz offers up a whodunit like no other in this fiendish crime thriller - perfect for fans of Agatha Christie vintage crime.
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club –
Reverend Richard Coles
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER The first novel in the Reverend Richard Coles' Canon Clement Mystery series.
Your family would kill to see you happy ‘Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to put down and lost count of the number of times I laughed…
Described by The Sunday Times as ‘A modern Christie’, this is an extraordinarily inventive crime debut in which the reader is challenged to solve the crime.
Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair is Jasper Fforde’s first novel, and the debut of a fresh and delightfully original new voice.
Sujata Massey
A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.
M.C. Beaton
The brand new Agatha Raisin mystery from multimillion-selling author M. C. Beaton, the Queen of Cosy Crime, about an eccentric Cotswolds-based detective with an erratic love life and a penchant…
Martin Walker
The first Dordogne Mystery starring Bruno, Chief of Police, France’s favourite cop. EU inspectors are causing havoc in the little town of St Denis and local tempers are running high…
Colin Cotterill
After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric instalments, is this really the last chapter for Dr. Siri Paiboun?
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Vaseem Khan
The first in an exciting new historical crime series from the bestselling author of the Baby Ganesh Agency books, and winner of the CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger 2021
A wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ideal for fans of Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus.
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Alexander Thorpe
Set in 1927, the story takes all the classic elements of an interwar murder mystery and gives it a distinctive Australian flavour.
Alexander McCall Smith
A ‘detective’ story with unique setting and characters.
