Murder mystery – Scuffed Granny

No Sanctuary by Graeme Chambers

Max Dempsey seeks the quiet life in Provence in this well-written murder mystery but this is shattered when a neighbour is murdered savagely

Roddy and Val DeVere once again find themselves in the midst of murder but which is worse? This, or the possible scandal in Newport society?

New Orleans: a city of mob and racial tension and now, there’s a serial killer on the loose in this well-written thriller

A tense tale set in coastal Scotland where enquiries about the mystery of a baby’s abandonment and her mother’s suicide stir up trouble

Little Deaths is a book about character and about how what we see does not necessarily represent everything we think we know about someone

If you like murder mysteries that are well-plotted, revealed by degrees and involve eccentric and lively characters, Nero Wolfe is for you!

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it

A well-paced book which crosses genres into post-war thriller, murder mystery and amateur detective fiction with the odd historical cameo

A search for a missing girl takes our heroine, Andie Yates back to Bayswater where she grew up and which holds good and bad memories for her

A Ruth Galloway mystery which is set at the start of the pandemic and which involves a number of mysterious deaths of women