Available Formats
Paperback
Published: 27th February 2024
Hardback
Published: 30th July 2024
Paperback
Published: 11th March 2025
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder: the highly anticipated crime novel for fans of the Antiques Roadshow
By (Author) C L Miller
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan
27th February 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Comical (humorous) crime and mystery
Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Humorous fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
823.92
Paperback
384
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 31mm
470g
C L Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder is the start of your new favourite crime series, The Number One Ladies Detective Agency meets The Fellowship of the Puzzle Makers as written by Richard Osman. Freya, it's down to you to finish what I started. . . Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya's estranged mentor, has died. and the circumstances seem suspicious. You will uncover a reservation, I implore you to attend. . . But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur's journals including reservations in her name are revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she'd sworn to leave behind. But beware, trust no-one. Your life depends on it. . . Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Arthur's staunch best friend, Freya follows both clues and her instincts to an old manor house for an 'antiques enthusiasts weekend'. But not is all as it seems; the antiques are bad reproductions and the other guests are menacing and secretive. Can Freya and Carole solve the mystery surrounding the weekend before a killer strikes again
C. L. Miller started working life in publishing as an editorial assistant for her mother, Judith Miller on the Miller's Antique Price Guide and as a researcher for the Antique Hunter's Guide to Europe and then went into hospitality and events. After she had children, she decided to follow her long-held dream of becoming an author and began writing full-time. She was an Undiscovered Voices winner in 2022 and was showcased in the UV 2022 anthology. C. L. lives in a medieval cottage in Dedham Vale, Suffolk, with her family.