TY - BOOK AU - Ward, Gareth, AU - Ward,Louise TI - The bookshop detectives: dead girl gone SN - 9781776951000 U1 - NZ823.3 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Auckland, New Zealand : PB - Penguin Random House New Zealand, KW - Bookstores KW - Fiction KW - Booksellers and bookselling KW - Missing persons KW - Cold cases (Criminal investigation) KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N2 - "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 ER -