A Beginners Guide to Murder

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* Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2022 *
Guaranteed to hook you . . . At times both touching and darkly funny Anna Bailey, Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones

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 novel Jessica Moor, bestselling author of Keeper

[An] excellent character-driven tale . . . by turns amusing, sorrowful, and thrilling. Stopps is definitely a writer to watch Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

A quirky, witty thriller that reminds us not to underestimate the older generation Best

Darkly comic and gripping Womans Own

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Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a caf, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. Shes clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think nothing of hiding her when a suspicious-looking man starts asking if theyve seen her.

Once alone, Nina tells the women a little of what shes 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.

And so begins the tale of the three most unlikely murderers-in-the-making, and may hell protect anyone who underestimates them.

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Readers LOVE Rosalind Stopps:

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! Amazon 5*

This is how fiction should be done! A fabulous, thrilling tale and I loved it! NetGalley 5*

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Praise for A Beginners Guide to Murder

Guaranteed to hook you . . . At times both touching and darkly funny, A Beginner's Guide To Murder explores the vital ways in which women can support one another through their darkest hours Anna Bailey, Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones

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 novel Jessica Moor, bestselling author of Keeper

A quirky, witty thriller that reminds us not to underestimate the older generation Best

Darkly comic and gripping Womans Own

[An] excellent character-driven tale . . . by turns amusing, sorrowful, and thrilling. Stopps is definitely a writer to watch Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Praise for Rosalind Stopps

A tense page-turning thrillerpowerful The Times

A masterful feat of storytelling Tim Pears, author of The West Country trilogy

Author Bio

Rosalind Stopps worked for many years with children with disabilities and their families, and has heard many sad, (and happy) stories. She keeps a list on her at all times of things she sees or hears that absolutely have to be written about and at the moment the list includes, amongst other things, a recipe book of fatal recipes. Rosalind's short stories have been published in five anthologies and read at live literature events in London, Leeds, Hong Kong and New York. Rosalind lives in London and works as a host at the South Bank. Hello, My Name is May is her debut novel.