Suzy K Quinn writes book club fiction and murder mystery series, and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is a bestselling author in the US, UK, and Germany. A former journalist, Suzy wrote for years before her first book was published at 30, and went on to hit no.1 in the UK comedy charts, with two books reaching the Amazon top 10. Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband and two daughters.
I love Agatha Raisin because she is awful, and I have never understood why more cosy sleuths aren't.
She is rude, she is vain, she is desperate to be liked, and she goes about it entirely the wrong way. When I first read this, I kept waiting for the book to soften her, and it never did, and I liked it enormously for that.
This is a real firecracker of a first book in a series, AND Agatha gets better and better as the series progresses!
'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN
'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed' DAILY MAIL
The first Agatha Raisin mystery from bestselling author M. C. Beaton
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Revenge is a dish best served warm...
High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She's off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition - and to make quite sure of first prize she secretly pays a visit…
Everybody underestimates Miss Marple, and Christie lets them get away with it for most of the book. Which is brilliant. They see a fluffy old lady in a cardigan.
I love watching a woman nobody takes seriously sit in the corner with her knitting, quietly working out exactly what every single person in that room has done.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.' Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the pointed time when, without warning, the lights go out ...
A tragicomic novel about the toxic relationship between two couples who first met at medical school and whose paths cross again many years later.
Charlotte is married to Henry, a retired consultant pathologist. She abandoned her own medical training after a harrowing experience left her emotionally…
Flavia de Luce is the most genuinely alarming detective I have ever read, and I adore her.
I spent the whole book faintly worried about everybody standing near her. She is eleven, she keeps her own chemistry laboratory, and she uses it mainly for poisons and for revenge on her sisters, and Bradley writes her with such glee that I laughed in several places I probably should not have.
What I love most is that he never once makes her sweet. He lets her be clever and strange and slightly frightening, and I was completely won over.
Meet Flavia: Mystery Solver. Master Poisoner. 11 Years Old.
England 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family, very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia is plotting revenge on her older sisters.
Then a dead bird is left on the doorstep, which has an extraordinary effect on Flavia's eccentric father, and a body is found in the garden. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides to do some investigating of her own.
Praise for the historical Flavia de Luce mysteries: 'The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite' Mail on Sunday
I finished this wanting to be Judith Potts, which is not a thing I say about many seventy-seven-year-olds.
She swims in the Thames every evening with no clothes on, she rattles around an enormous house on her own, and she is magnificently unbothered by what anyone thinks of her.
What I loved is that Thorogood took three women the world had quietly stopped paying attention to and then made them the cleverest people in the book. Made me laugh out loud on a train, which I resented because it made me look mildly like a lunatic.
The first in a stunning new series introducing the Marlow Murder Club!
'A hugely enjoyable murder mystery written with wonderful verve, humour and compassion. Utterly delightful' Robert Webb
'I love Robert Thorogood's writing' Peter James
From the creator of the BBC One hit TV series, Death in Paradise
To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero...
Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky…
Pat Tierney is back! In her fifth murder mystery, the Toronto financial advisor's new client appears to live a charmed life.
Monika Lentz is beautiful, wealthy, and enjoying a hugely successful career at the Toronto World newspaper. But soon after meeting with Pat, Monika fails to make her newspaper column's…
This is the book I press on anyone who tells me they are too old to start something, and I press it quite aggressively.
Emily Pollifax has had enough of her garden club, so she walks into the CIA and volunteers, and they send her out precisely because she looks harmless. I love how much Gilman clearly enjoys that.
It was written in 1966, and it has not aged in the way I expected it to at all.
Mrs Emily Pollifax is a 60-ish widow wanting more from life than teas and garden club meetings. In search of adventure, she decides to offer her services to the CIA - who, after all, would spot a suburban grandmother as a cold war secret agent? - and adventure she finds. Her first assignment, in Mexico City, doesn't sound dangerous until something goes wrong. She suddenly finds herself abducted across the world, embroiled in quite a hot Cold War... and her abductors find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady. Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs…
Shirley Duffy runs a village pub with her husband Bob, and she is right about everything, which Bob finds difficult. There is excessive beer, gin and cake, a ploughman's lunch, and an alcoholic cat called Sambuca.
I wrote Shirley because I grew up opposite a pub, and the landlady was the most formidable person I had ever met.
This is the first novel in a cozy mystery series, featuring a funny, feisty antique dealer turned amateur sleuth who lives in the cosiest corner of Kent. Meet novice antique dealer Lina Townend: warm, independent and blessed with an uncanny nose for a bargain ... and a talent for sniffing…
This mystery involves amateur sleuth Zora Harrison who reopens a cold case concerning the disappearance of an old friend and colleague, Jane Hubbard. Jane was swindled by a broker who feared her testimony, but there are other suspects as well, including a jealous rival.
