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Pre-order, due October

Murder Most Cryptic

Due .
Michael Joseph, 400 pages.
ISBN: 9780241810972


Regular price £16.99 GBP

Pre-order Murder Most Cryptic to receive it on publication (due ). The book will be sent as soon as it is available.


Nina is a promising young journalist. She’s also an alcoholic. Once a week, she attends a recovery group in the local church hall.

When a stranger walks in one night, the group think they might have a new member. Until he promptly drops dead. The police believe it’s nothing more than an accident.

But the group soon realise there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye, when they discover a cryptic crossword clue hidden in the dead man’s pocket – the answer to which is Murder. As more mysterious and threatening clues start appearing in a newspaper crossword, Nina and team must work to crack this cryptic case. Can they solve the clues, and catch a killer?

Or will the next crossword spell death for one of them…


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