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Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable.
Wednesday 21st October, 7.30pm event start (7pm doors)
Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP
Join us to discuss crime fiction, and in particular detective series, with JD Brinkworth (the pen name for married author duo, Catherine Brinkworth and Jo Deakin) and bestselling children's author turned crime novelist, Ross Montgomery (The Murder At World's End)
JD Brinkworth have published the first in their Pie & Mash Mysteries, The Pie & Mash Detective Agency and Ross Montgomery's second book in The Stockingham & Pike Detective series, The Shadows of Kensington Gore is published in October.
Sabine Durrant (Lie With Me, Under Your Skin and more), author of seven thriller novels, is hosting on the evening.
About the books:
The Pie & Mash Detective Agency
Local schoolteacher Dev Hooper arrives home from work to find his girlfriend, Nellie Thorne, has vanished.
But she's not the first Nellie Thorne to disappear. In fact, she's the fifth in fifty years. Enter Jane Pye and Simon Mash: a millennial couple who signed up for a private detective night class on a whim.
When they're assigned Dev's case for their coursework, they quickly realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew. Armed with just six weeks of notes, matching trench coats, and questionable detective skills, they set out to solve a case that has baffled Kent's police for decades. What links the missing Nellies? And why does everyone keep talking about ghosts!? Is it an open and shut case? Not on your Nellie…
The Shadows of Kensington Gore
London, 1911. Coronation fever.
Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is found brutally murdered on the streets of Kensington, blame falls on the three women seen fleeing the scene.
Their sole witness? Stephen Pike: ex-borstal boy, under-butler extraordinaire and assistant to the most unconventional detective in London, Miss Decima Stockingham. Sharp-tongued, fearless and bored of behaving herself, she’s the only one able to see that this case is not what it seems. Aided by an invisible network of maids – their eyes and ears in every house in London – this unlikely duo must catch the killer before time runs out.
But in a city dazzled by ceremony and divided by change, you never know what might be lurking in the shadows…
Tickets Available:
Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.)
Ticket & The Shadow of Kensington Gore (RRP £18.99) - £27 To collect on the night
Ticket & The Pie & Mash Detective Agency (RRP £9.99) - £21 To collect on the night