ANDREW CARTMEL

Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.Introducing a new series from the creator of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl Detective novels.Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when shes not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collectors items, shes pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlords demands for rent.The most elusive prize of all, her white whale, has surfaced a set of magnificent, vintage Sleuth Hound crime novels. Gorgeous, and as rare as they come. Just one problem. Theyre not for sale. Still, that wont stop a resourceful woman like Cordelia One burglary later, the books are hers. Unfortunately, the man shes just robbed turns out be one of Londons most dangerous gangsters, and now hes on her trail and out for blood.Cordelias best laid plans to pay the rent and woo the object of her affections start to fall apart, and she realises she may have placed herself in the crosshairs of a villain torn straight from the pages of her treasured novels.

The Vinyl Detective goes punk in his fifth hilarious adventure. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead Wax.Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a new girlfriend. Helene Hilditch - formerly known as Howlin Hellbitch - of all-girl punk outfit Blue Tits is a mean guitarist, someone is trying to kill her. With a rare pressing of the Blue Tits first album to find, the Vinyl Detective and Nevada are called in to help. But this time the question is who isnt a suspect. With a long list of enemies, the people who could want Helene dead includes her ex-bandmates, their former producer turned record label mogul, the TV presenter that Helene got fired - even their old roadie could be in on it. As the killers attempts on Helenes life get more and more ambitious the Vinyl Detective and Nevada are in a race against time to find the killer, before its too late.

The fourth book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead WaxAt the height of their success, the electric folk band Black Dog invited journalists to a desolate island for an infamous publicity stunt: the burning of a million dollars. But the stunt backfired and the band split up, increasing the value of their final album vastly. Its this album that Tinklers got his eye on, and he hires none other than the Vinyl Detective and Nevada to hunt a copy down.Narrowly avoiding a killing spree, negotiating deranged Black Dog fans, and being pursued by hack celebrity Stinky Stamner and his camera crew, the Vinyl Detective and Nevada discover that perhaps all was not as it seemed on the islandand that in the embers of that fire are clues to a motive for murder

The third book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance." David Quantick on Written in Dead WaxWhen one of his cats accidentally discovers a rare Victory Disc, the Vinyl Detective and his girlfriend Nevada are whisked into the world of big band swing music, and a mystery that began during the Second World War.Hired to track down the rest of the highly sought-after recordings of the Flare Path Orchestra, our hero will discover that the battles of the last world war arent over yet. And if all this sounds simple, its only because we havent mentioned drive-by shootings, murderous neo-Nazis, or that slight case of being buried alive

He is a record collector -a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy, yet shadowy, client. So begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all...

The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.It starts with a perfectly normal evening in, except for the corpse-faced gentleman dressed all in black, with a crow on his shoulder, staring into the house, of course. And the visit from Owyn Wynter, head of Whyte Ravyn Records, who needs the Detectives unique skills.So begins an all-expenses-paid trip to Trollesko, Sweden for the Detective, Nevada, Tinkler and Agatha to track down a copy of the debut album from demonic metal legends, Storm Dream Troopers. Condemned by the church and banned on release, Attack and Decay is a legendary record.But their trip to the homelands of Nordic noir is quickly thrust into a world of intrigue as the Detective closes in on the deal, the band unexpectedly converge on the peaceful town, And worse, their trip somehow coincides with a visit from Stinky Stanmer Soon the bodies start piling up, and the Vinyl Detective is the only one who can solve the case.

When a mint copy of the final album by "Valerian" - Englands great lost rock band of the 1960s - surfaces in a charity shop, all hell breaks loose. Finding this record triggers a chain of events culminating in our hero learning the true fate of the singer Valerian, who died under equivocal circumstances just after - or was it just before? - the abduction of her two-year-old son.

The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.The Vinyl Detective enters the fraught and frenzied realm of electronic dance music.Lambert Ramkin aka Imperium Dart, techno trickster and ambient music wizard of the 1990s, has gone walkabout, disappearing from his rather palatial home in Kent. This isnt the first time hes pulled a vanishing act, but hes never been gone so long before and his wife wives, actually; its complicated are worried and hire the Vinyl Detective to find the old rascal. They theorise that wherever the missing man is, he wont be able to resist turning up at a record fair somewhere in search of 12-inch white label acid house singles, which he collects compulsively. And no one knows the world of record fairs better than the Vinyl Detective. Theyre not wrong But once our hero finds the wandering Lamb the trouble really begins including terrifying mind-fucks with a side order of, if things break the wrong way, mass murder.

A cat woman a notorious London gangster and a brothel specialising in chimeras Or just another Wednesday as it s known in the world of Rivers of London Stray Cat Blues is the latest adventure in

Humorous cosy-crime caper in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to catch a murderer, desperate to hide the secrets kept by the yoga-obsessed staff and students of a West London ashram.When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga books are stolen from a West London ashram, its leaders turn to Cordelia, the paperback sleuth, to recover them a set-up thats a little awkward as theyve previously barred her from yoga classes for selling marijuana to their students. But what begins as a hunt for missing paperbacks soon becomes a murder investigation as those involved with the ashram cant seem to stop dropping down dead murdered with a whisky bottle to the head or a poisoned curry. Can Cordelia work out who the killer is and bring them to justice before they bring an end to her sleuthing for good.

The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of Italian movie soundtrack music in his eighth adventure that is sure to delight those who love whimsical British cosy crime. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more. Some of the greatest (and grooviest) music ever committed to vinyl has come out of Italy in the form of soundtracksespecially for that variety of lurid thriller known as a giallo. The maestros who composed these masterpieces include Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Armand Trovajoli And Loretto Loconsole.No one disputes that Loconsole was a genius, but was he also a murderer?When his mistress was brutally killed in 1969, on location in Cool Britannia for a giallo called Murder in London, there wasnt enough evidence to prosecute him. But Loconsole died in the shadow of disgrace. Now, his granddaughter Chloe has come back to England to hire the Vinyl Detective. She wants him to find an immaculate vinyl copy of Murder in LondonAnd to clear her grandfathers name.Can the Vinyl Detective and the gangNevada, Tinkler and Agathafind out the truth of what happened in Swinging London more than half a century ago? And can they stay alive when theres someone out there whod prefer the secrets of the past to remain buriedand is more than willing to kill to keep it that way?

Humorous cosy-crime caper from the author of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl Detective series in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to solve fiendish crimes, A love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits. When rock musician and World War Two nut Erik Make Loud hires Cordelia, the Paperback Sleuth, to track down a series of rare and highly sought-after Commando novels by the blatantly pseudonymous Butch Raider, it seems like a routine job. But Cordelia soon discovers that the series and in particular the incredibly rare Commando Gold paperback are all but impossible to track down.The books creator real name Monty Hanington, once a promising young poet and now an embittered drunk proves easier to find. And when he reveals to Cordelia that all his stories came from a real ex-commando hed met on a pub crawl, a man who was only too happy to provide authentic colour to Montys stories for a pint or two, she realises the tales might just be a little too authentic.For Commando Gold details a 1944 operation in Greece, in which commandos stumbled on a cache of Nazi gold and decided to bring it home with them. The operation was real, the gold is definitely real and the horde still exists hidden away in England.And some people are willing to kill to get it.