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Miss Beeton's Murder Agency
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A brand new cosy crime series from bestselling author Josie Lloyd with a retro feel but an entirely contemporary setting.
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Alice Beeton never meant to wind up single and childless on the wrong side of fifty. Like her distant relative Mrs Beeton – yes, that Mrs Beeton – she had hoped to have her own spic-and-span household by now.
Instead she runs the Good Household Management Agency, providing discreet domestic staff to extravagant townhouses and sprawling country piles.
But in the early hours of New Year’s Day, she's rudely awakened with the news that one of her members of staff, Enya, has been found dead. As the intriguing, if somewhat scruffy, Detective Rigby struggles to drum up an adequate investigation and the wealthy family Enya worked for and their party guests close rank, Miss Beeton takes it upon herself to solve the crime...
''Mrs Beeton herself would be proud. A perfect recipe and devoured in one sitting between elevenses and afternoon tea'' ― Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants
'A glorious new addition to the cosy crime genre with recipes which leave you wanting more' – Melanie Cantor, author of The F*ck It List
SOME OF JOSIE'S OTHER BOOKS​
'Amazing, heartbreaking and inspiring'― Sunday Times bestseller Jenny Colgan
Life isn’t always the race we expected to run...
But this moving and uplifting novel is full of hope and about love, family, friendship and the power of finding your tribe.
'A hopeful, uplifting read' ― The Sun
Published as The Bright Side Running Club in the US
'A love letter to the power of friendship, honest and uplifting' ― Sunday Times bestseller Jill Mansell
Josie Lloyd, also writing as Joanna Rees, is the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling international author of over twenty published women's fiction novels, and has been translated into 27 languages.
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She's sold millions of copies around the world and, in addition to her latest contemporary women's fiction novels, The Cancer Ladies Running Club, published as The Bright Side Running Club in the US, and Lifesaving for Beginners, her books include addictive, witty and heart-warming rom coms like Come Together (which was made into a film by Working Title), thrilling page-turning historical romances like The Runaway Daughter, The Hidden Wife & The Sister Returns, bestselling funny parodies like We're Going on a Bar Hunt and The Very Hungover Caterpillar, and exciting escapist mystery romances like The Tides of Change, A Twist of Fate, The Key to it All, In the Shade of the Blossom Tree, and The Girl From Lace Island — published as Her Secret Revenge, Her Secret Destiny, Her Secret Fortune, Her Secret Rival and Her Secret Inheritance in the US.
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She's currently working on a new crime series called Miss Beeton's Murder Agency, published in the UK by HarperCollins on 24th October 2024.
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