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My next book MURDER AT THE CHRISTMAS EMPORIUM is out soon!

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An image of a book, Murder at the Christmas Emporium on a background of snowflakes with dripping blood at the bottom. The book has a gold cover and bauble-like design with a picture of a mock-tudor shop, holly leaves and blood spatter details

Yes, it’s the most murderous time of the year again! I have been hard at work on a new festive mystery. MURDER AT THE CHRISTMAS EMPORIUM will be released in hardback on 24th October, and somehow the artists at Zaffre managed to make it even more gold and shiny than THE TWELVE DAYS OF MURDER.

This is what it’s all about:

Christmas shopping can be murder.

It’s Christmas Eve at the Emporium, a bespoke gift shop hidden in the depths of London’s winding streets, where a select few shoppers are browsing its handcrafted delights.

But when they go to leave, they find the doors are locked and it isn’t long before they realise this is no innocent mix-up. The shoppers have been trapped here by someone who knows their darkest secrets, who will stop at nothing until they have all been unwrapped – and there is a gruesome gift waiting in Santa’s grotto . . .

Cover of Murder at the Christmas Emporium featuring the tropes in the book: locked in with a killer; seven perfect strangers... or are they? Creepy automaton; grumpy Christmas-phobic sleuth; One of us is lying... OK we're all lying.

For those that survive the night, it will be a Christmas to remember.

If you like your thrillers set in a creepy old shop full of unpleasant characters, dark secrets and tinsel, then this could be for you. Also hard relate if you’ve ever been Christmas shopping and felt murderous by the end…

Pre-order here

Pick up a signed copy and support an indie bookshop!

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the inside of the Riverside Bookshop with a view through the window of London Bridge station

I’m going to be launching my book at The Riverside Bookshop in Tooley Street near London Bridge and will be on-site on the 2nd November (exactly a week after the book comes out) to sign pre-ordered copies. If you’d like to order from a fabulous indie bookshop and get a more personalised signed copy then drop them a line here. Tell them who you’d like me to dedicate it to – I’ll also write any short message you’d like to include. Within Reason. Keep it clean, people. Pre-orders really help authors make an impact, and ordering from an independent bookshop rather than the big river site helps keep local businesses going so please do give it a go.

My very first job in magazines was in a poky, grubby office just round the corner from London Bridge. It was very stressful – we had no budget, virtually no staff, punishing deadlines and I was very much out of my depth. When the pressure got too much I’d escape to Hay’s Galleria and the Riverside Bookshop. Browsing a bookshop or library has always helped me de-stress and the beautiful location made me feel all Londony and grown-up. Now I’m launching my book there!