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Ward, Gareth, 1968-

The bookshop detectives : dead girl gone / Gareth Ward and Louise Ward. - Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2024. - 331 pages ; 24 cm

"When a mystery parcel arrives at Sherlock Tomes bookshop in small-town Havelock North, New Zealand, husband-and-wife owners Garth and Eloise (and their petrified pooch, Stevie) are drawn into the baffling case of a decades-old missing schoolgirl. Intrigued by the puzzling, bookish clues the two ex-cops are soon tangled in a web of crime, drugs, and floral decapitations, while endeavouring to pull off the international celebrity book launch of the century. With their beloved shop on the chopping block and the sinister suspect who forced them to run away from Blighty reemerging from the shadows, have Garth and Eloise Sherlock finally met their Moriarty?"--Publisher information.

ISBN: 9781776951000 177695100X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Bookstores--Fiction.
Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
New Zealand fiction--21st century.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: NZ823.3