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 . . .

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…