As soon as they meet, it’s murder.

When Jade Fitch opens a new-age shop in the picturesque market town of Hazeby-on-Wyvern, she’s hoping for a fresh start. Meanwhile, Fi Booker is trying to make a living from her floating bookshop as well as deal with her teenage son.

It’s just coincidence that they’re the only two people on the boat when local antiques dealer Freddy Stott drops dead while turning the pages of a book. Or is it?

After a grilling from the unfriendly neighbourhood policeman, Jade and Fi are left shaken. Can they prove they didn’t kill Freddy Stott? Was he even the intended victim? And can they trust each other?

Local gossip reveals a host of suspects, but with the police taking their time and hostility towards them growing in the town, Jade and Fi decide to investigate. Will that make things better, or much, much worse?

Murder for Beginners is the first book in the Booker and Fitch cozy mystery series, set in and around the English market town of Hazeby-on-Wyvern.

When a retired detective with a nose for trouble wanders into a town hiding a deadly secret …

‘When Steve Higgs writes, he hits it out of the park. Every book is a fast-paced thrill-fest, but somehow he always finds time to make me laugh out loud between the action.’ ** Complete Series. Read every book (the dog doesn't die) **

Albert Smith might be retired, but a long career as a police detective has left him with skills that just won’t switch off. So on a walking tour of the British Isles, it doesn’t take long for his eyes to spot something he wasn’t supposed to see.

But exposing one crime leads to another, and all too soon Albert comes to believe they might just be linked.

On the trail of a shadowy figure orchestrating a nationwide campaign, man and dog will find themselves in more trouble than they can handle.

But Albert’s got very little to lose, and his sense of justice remains a guiding light, so when he knows the sensible choice would be to quit, that’s when he’s at his most dangerous.

Travel Great Britain with Albert and Rex in a boxed set of adventures that proves age really is just a number.

Read this collection of ten enthralling mystery tales, and find the remaining six stories, plus a bundle of shorter stories involving our intrepid duo, in a second boxed set.

‘This series has it all; everything I want in a story and series ... humour, suspense, and colourful characters. It’s one of my top all-time favourite series.’
Books contained in this boxed set:
Pork Pie Pandemonium
Bakewell Tart Bludgeoning
Stilton Slaughter
Bedfordshire Clanger Calamity
Death of a Yorkshire Pudding
Cumberland Sausage Shocker
Arbroath Smokie Slaying
Dundee Cake Deception
Lancashire Hotpot Peril
Blackpool Rock Bloodshed

This series of books contains no cussing and graphic descriptions of violence or bedroom activities.
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In the shadows of an alley in Los Angeles, Detective Lena Gamble stands at a crossroads. For eight long months not a single murder case has come her way, her good name tarnished by city bosses and the dark politics of the LAPD.

But then fate deals her a hand from the cards of death. A body, a girl, a young woman—dismembered and tossed in a dumpster with the trash.

The only lead is delivered in secret. A mysterious courier, a lost witness, who drops off an envelope with the victim’s driver’s license and a video clip. A glimpse into the murderer’s world.

As Lena digs deeper, her path is fraught with mystery and deceit and whispers of a larger conspiracy. And with the body count rising, the LAPD and city bosses are watching, waiting for a misstep—hoping for it—spying on her through the walls of her own home.

Yet Lena’s resolve never wavers, her mind sharp as the blade that stole the girl’s life. And when she unearths the killer’s lair—the knives, the blood, the dead girl’s clothing—she knows it’s a race against time.

A dark dance of intellect and intuition, where every clue is a step closer to the truth, and every truth is a step closer to redemption. Will Lena Gamble outsmart everyone who wants to see her fail? Or will the City of Angels claim another lost soul to its depths? Will she live or will she die?

The answers lie in that chilling moment Lena reaches the end of the road. The moment she discovers the lost witness.

“Scorching. Deliciously twisted. Nothing is what it appears to be. Ellis succeeds masterfully in both playing fair and pulling surprise after surprise in a story that feels like a runaway car plunging down a mountain road full of switchbacks.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

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Henry and Emily Fox are jolted from their peaceful semi-retirement in the idyllic community of Sugarbury Falls, Vermont when Emily discovers a dead body during her morning run. As if the discovery isn’t shocking in itself, Emily learns the dead body has a connection to the adult summer writing camp she is about to start teaching. With no apparent cause of death, Henry’s buddy, the coroner, suspects foul play. Neither Dr. Henry, nor former reporter Emily can resist solving a puzzle. As they work to solve the mystery, they discover an intricate web of relationships and motives involving the writers in Emily’s class. Along the way, they are confronted with a profound, life changing decision. Follow A Deadly Course through the first book in the Sugarbury Falls mystery series and see if Emily and Henry make it safely to the end.