{"product_id":"9780008302658","title":"A Beginner’s Guide to Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Stopps, Rosalind \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 28\/04\/2022,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008302658,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2022 *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  â€˜Guaranteed to hook you . . . At times both touching and darkly funnyâ€™ Anna Bailey, Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â€˜A beguiling, beautifully crafted treat of a novel. It holds so much wisdom yet wears it so lightly. There are shades of Kate Atkinson in the way Rosalind balances dark themes with dry humour, a great plot, exquisitely realised characters, and more than a hint of feminist sensibility . . . truly everything I want in a novelâ€™ Jessica Moor, bestselling author of Keeper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â€˜[An] excellent character-driven tale . . . by turns amusing, sorrowful, and thrilling. Stopps is definitely a writer to watchâ€™ Publishers Weekly, STARRED review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â€˜A quirky, witty thriller that reminds us not to underestimate the older generationâ€™ Best\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â€˜Darkly comic and grippingâ€™ Womanâ€™s Own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a cafÃ©, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. Sheâ€™s clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think nothing of hiding her when a suspicious-looking man starts asking if theyâ€™ve seen her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Once alone, Nina tells the women a little of what sheâ€™s running from. The need to protect her is immediate, and Grace, Meg and Daphne vow to do just this. But how? They soon realise there really is only one answer: murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And so begins the tale of the three most unlikely murderers-in-the-making, and may hell protect anyone who underestimates them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Readers LOVE Rosalind Stopps:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  â€˜I was hooked from the start and finished it in little more than two days, because it was truly unputdownable. Beautifully written and really quite scary in places . . . A brilliant book. More from this excellent writer please!â€™ Amazon 5*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â€˜This is how fiction should be done! A fabulous, thrilling tale and I loved it!â€™ NetGalley 5*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39592282685484,"sku":"9780008302658","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008302658_e6b9d02f-f99b-4e47-9224-a7b438d7a7ec.jpg?v=1759657825","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008302658","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}