Zofia Nowaks Book of Superior Detecting

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'If you're looking for irresistible prose, it's here in this book. The protagonists' voices criss-cross in a near impossible harmony of heart, guts, shrewdness and nerve. If it's a story you're after, that's here too' Helen Oyeyemi

Zofia's troubled son, Janek, is missing. She leaves her native Warsaw and arrives in London to investigate whether a famous writer, Steve, had something to do with the disappearance.

To fund the operation, headstrong Zofia has borrowed a lot of money and been forced to take cleaning jobs - a professional trajectory she finds very much beneath her. Zofia's heavy-handed, DIY investigation soon yields some results: Steve does have skeletons in his closet. Two are of particular interest: he stole Janek's novel and published it as his own; and he's now dating Janek's ex-boyfriend...

Steve and Zofia soon join forces to unravel this mystery. There's an unsolved murder, a stolen book, and a missing boyfriend - all that before Zofia and Steve even begin to face the fact that they both played a part in creating this almighty mess.

Just as hilarious as it is thought-provoking, this unputdownable and genuinely one-of-a-kind page-turner is perfect for fans of Jonas Jonasson, Fredrik Backman and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

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If you're looking for irresistible prose, it's here in this book. The protagonists' voices criss-cross in a near impossible harmony of heart, guts, shrewdness and nerve. If it's a story you're after, that's here too: I'm in awe * Helen Oyeyemi *

Author Bio

Piotr Cieplak is an author, academic and award-winning filmmaker. His short stories and poems appeared in Litro Magazine, Lines Underwater and Aesthetica. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was the recipient of the year-long Harper-Wood Creative Writing Studentship at St. John's College (2010-11).

Piotr is the author of Death, Image, Memory: the genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath in photography and documentary film (Palgrave, 2017) and the editor of Familiar Faces: memory, photography and Argentina's disappeared (Goldsmiths/MIT Press, 2023).

Piotr is the writer and director of Memory Cards (UK, 2015), The Faces We Lost (UK, 2017), Closed Casket (UK, 2020), Do You Remember That Year (UK, 2021) and To (Dis)Appear (UK, 2023). His films have screened at international festivals around the world, on TV, and received numerous awards.

Piotr's creative work has been supported by grants from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. He lives in London and teaches at the University of Sussex. Not Your Story is Piotr's first novel.