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I also write under the name of Domenica de Rosa
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My Latest Books
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The Ali Dawson Mysteries
The Frozen People
SOME MURDERS CAN’T BE SOLVED IN JUST ONE LIFETIME. Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they’re frozen – or so their inside joke goes. Most people don’t know that they travel back in time to complete their research. The latest a …
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Standalone novels
The Postscript Murders
PS: Thanks for the murders. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should absolutely not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka’s account of Peggy Smith’s death. But when Natalka rev …
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The Ruth Galloway Novels
The Last Remains
When builders renovating a café in King’s Lynn find a human skeleton behind a wall, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the nearby University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of h …
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The Brighton Mysteries
The Midnight Hour
When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play. But when the postmortem reveals that he was poisoned, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-Music Hall star Verity Malone. Frustrated by the …
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One week to go until we let #RevengeOfOdessa loose into the world!
The long-awaited sequel to the all-time classic #TheOdessaFile, it was a massive honour to help the master of the thriller genre - the late, great Frederick Forsyth - deliver his passion project
Pre-order today!
It’s getting colder but here’s a reminder that The Frozen People is still a hot ticket. 99p on kindle for the whole of October…
And you’re near Grimes Graves 😊
Happy #BookshopDay. This is @ToppingsBath, one of the many wonderful bookshops I’ve visited recently. Thank you all for enriching our lives ❤️
Wishing everyone a very happy Bookshop Day! Here are some of our amazing Quercus books that have been flying off the shelves in 2025 so far🤩
Make sure you head out to support your local high street bookshop today! 📚✨🛍️
#BookshopDay
Came across the most amazing sentence in a book on folklore I was reading last night: “Satan rarely ventures into Sussex because, knowing that good Sussex cooks will make puddings out of pretty well anything, he is afraid of being made a pudding of.”