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The Charity Shop Detective Agency can’t lie that title alone sucked me right in!! What a title!!
THE CHARITY SHOP DETECTIVE AGENCY by Peter Boland
PUT THE KETTLE ON AND DISCOVER AN UTTERLY CHARMING NEW COZY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN A SLEEPY SEASIDE TOWN.
A serial killer is stalking the elderly of Southbourne. The only clue left behind is a domino in the hand of each victim — with a name scratched on the back.
Eighty-six-year-old Sarah Brown is found dead in her hallway one morning by her delivery man. She was stabbed in the back.
Fiona, Sue and Daisy, volunteers at the local charity shop, Dogs Need Nice Homes, can’t believe their favourite customer is dead. The ladies vow to bring the killer to justice.
With plenty of tea and cake along the way, and despite squabbles with their rivals, the Cats Alliance across the street, the Charity Shop Detective Agency is born.
Fans of The Thursday Murder Club, Janice Hallett, Simon Brett, Ian Moore and Sarah Yarwood-Lovett will adore this exciting new voice in cozy crime.
THE DETECTIVE
Level-headed Fiona has found a quiet sanctuary volunteering at the local charity shop, Dogs Need Nice Homes. And she’s found firm friendship with the strong-willed Partial Sue (she’s ever so partial to a cup of tea) and the kindly — and surprisingly tech-savvy — Daisy. Together, these ladies, with Simon Le Bon, Fiona’s scruffy haired terrier cross, investigate murders as the utterly charming Charity Shop Detective Agency.
PETER BOLAND
After studying to be an architect, Pete realised he wasn’t very good at it. He liked designing buildings, he just couldn’t make them stand up — a big handicap in an industry that’s partial to keeping things upright. So he became an advertising copywriter, the highlight of which was creating an ad featuring Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman. He then tried his hand at writing his own stories and quickly realised there’s no magic formula. You just have to put one word in front of the other (and keep doing that for about six months). It also helps if you can resist the lure of surfing and drinking beer in a garden chair.
The first book in his Charity Shop Detective Agency series will publish in late 2022.
BOOKS BY PETER BOLAND:
• THE CHARITY SHOP DETECTIVE AGENCY
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My Review Took a chance on a new author and it’s their first book and all I can say is WOW!! Straight off the bat that title is literally my lifelong dream, I love charity shops (way before they were fashionable to like them, and before they got pricey!!) And who doesn’t want to join a Detective Agency? I’d be the first to sign up. The Shop ‘Dogs Need Nice Homes’ and the characters Fiona, Sue and Daisy are heartwarmers for sure, beautiful connection between the three, and we stumble into a murder weapon, what would you do? We’ll get a blanket, a hot chocolate and let’s go sleuthing with them. Full of twists, daft humour and love, so well written, and it will be a fine series, as I would want more! Also bring it to TV!
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