Author · The Bendigo Bookshop Mysteries

Murder, mayhem, and a very good cup of tea.

I write cosy mysteries set behind the counter of a small, struggling bookshop — where the overdue fines used to be the worst of anyone’s problems.

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Death by Due Date

A body in the returns bin, and a bookshop about to close.

The library’s most reliable volunteer turns up dead in the returns trolley, and everyone in Bendigo suddenly has an alibi rehearsed a little too well.

The fourth case for the Bendigo Bookshop Mysteries — and the first body to turn up in the returns trolley.

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Claire Donnelly among a circle of readers at a cosy book-club evening in the bookshop
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An evening that feels like your own book club, not a lecture

An hour with tea and biscuits, a proper Q&A, and enough plot to argue about on the drive home.

Cosynot goryTeaalways onQ&Abring your theories

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“Murder, mayhem, and a very good cup of tea.”

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