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Published: 2nd December 2025
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Dead Tired: 'Cosy crime at its finest!' - Janice Hallett
By (Author) Kat Ailes
Bonnier Books Ltd
Zaffre
2nd December 2025
30th January 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice, topics and issues
823.92
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
248g
'COSY CRIME AT ITS FINEST!' JANICE HALLETT
'THOROUGHLY MODERN COSY CRIME DONE RIGHT!' JONATHAN WHITELAW
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Alice has made the most of her maternity leave, becoming simultaneously a proud mum (well, a mum, at least) and accidental amateur sleuth. When an opportunity to catch up on some much-needed sleep arrives in the unexpected form of an overnight sit-in protest, Alice and her friends willingly volunteer, chaining themselves to trees for a relaxing, child-free evening.
But when they awake to find one of their fellow protestors has been strangled, they are soon caught up in a tantrum of rogue artists, nude protesting (optional) and the machinations of an enigmatic local entrepreneur. With Alice's murder-solving success rate at an all-time high (one out of one), she cannot resist the chance to demonstrate her detectoring skills again, assembling her gang of young mums to investigate this latest countryside mystery.
'AILES ONCE AGAIN MARRIES QUICK WIT, SURPRISING REVEALS, AND CHARMING ANTICS' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'MOTHERHOOD HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH MURDEROUS FUN' ANDREINA CORDANI
Kat Ailes' debut novel was runner-up for the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize 2021. She works as an editor and freelanced for several years to allow her to take a couple of belated gap years, including hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. She now lives in the Cotswolds with her lovely husband and son and her beautiful but foolish dog.