Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.

Introducing a new series from the creator of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl Detective novels.

Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she' s not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector' s items, she' s pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord' s demands for rent.

The most elusive prize of all, her white whale, has surfaced - a set of magnificent, vintage Sleuth Hound crime novels. Gorgeous, and as rare as they come. Just one problem. They' re not for sale. Still, that won' t stop a resourceful woman like Cordelia One burglary later, the books are hers. Unfortunately, the man she' s just robbed turns out be one of London' s most dangerous gangsters, and now he' s on her trail and out for blood.

Cordelia' s best laid plans to pay the rent and woo the object of her affections start to fall apart, and she realises she may have placed herself in the crosshairs of a villain torn straight from the pages of her precious novels.