D is for Death: Meet Dora Wildwood, historical crime's brilliant new heroine!

Dora Wildwood is a runaway bride, book lover, and aspiring detective in the debut crime novel from bestselling author Harriet Evans, writing as Harriet F. Townson. She is thrown into the middle of a murder scene at the London Library and is determined to prove an invaluable help to the Detective Inspector Fox. The book is a brilliant historical crime series that marries the quality of Dorothy L. Sayers with the ingenuity of Janice Hallett.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Meet Dora Wildwood: runaway bride, book lover, and aspiring detective, in the debut crime novel from bestselling author Harriet Evans, writing as Harriet F. Townson. 1935. Dora sets off on the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unfortunately for her, Dora's fiance is more persistent than most and follows. As Dora alights at Paddington station, she is immediately forced to run from the loathsome Charles Silk-Butters. She ducks into the London Library to hide and it is there, surrounded by books, where Dora Wildwood stumbles across her first dead body. Having been thrown into the middle of a murder scene, it's now impossible to walk away. Indeed, Dora's certain she will prove an invaluable help to the gruff Detective Inspector Fox who swiftly arrives on the scene. For as everyone knows, it's the woman in the room who always sees more than anyone else: and no one more so than Dora herself... D is for Death heralds the launch of a brilliant historical crime series that marries the quality of Dorothy L. Sayers with the ingenuity of Janice Hallett - and in Dora Wildwood introduces a character with the spark and gusto of Enola Holmes and the detective skill of Miss Marple. *** Readers already love Dora Wildwood! *** Witty, beautifully plotted and full of memorable characters. I for one can't wait to see what Dora does next. Highly recommended The start of a new historical mystery series with a delightful protagonist, a deftly drawn cast and a well imagined backdrop. Oh my god this book! I want to inhale it. I want to live in it. I want to buy the rest of the series and read them all one after the other while feasting on pep.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 241 x 163 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399731478