Dead Tired

'Cosy crime at its finest!' - Janice Hallett

Kat Ailes

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Zaffre
17 September 2024

Crime & Mystery; Pregnancy, birth & baby care

Series: A Mothers' Murder Club Mystery

'COSY CRIME AT ITS FINEST!' JANICE HALLETT

'THOROUGHLY MODERN COSY CRIME DONE RIGHT!' JONATHAN WHITELAW

Alice has made the most of her maternity leave, becoming simultaneously a proud mum (well, a mum, at least) and accidental amateur sleuth. With her son, Jack, somehow a year old already, she is keen to continue to keep him alive and maybe finally catch up on some sleep ... if she's lucky. When an opportunity presents itself in the unexpected form of a sit-in protest, Alice and her friends willingly chain themselves to trees and settle in for some overdue rest - not the most comfortable arrangement ever, but at this point they'll take whatever they can get.

But the next morning one of their fellow protestors is found strangled and instead of a peaceful protest, Alice and her friends find themselves swept away on a tide of intrigue involving rogue artists, an enigmatic local entrepreneur and nude protesting (optional) - a surprising, but not necessarily unwelcome, break from changing nappies and cleaning Weetabix off the dog. For Alice, whose success rate in solving countryside murder is at an all-time high (one out of one), she cannot resist the chance to demonstrate her detectoring skills once more and assembles 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

By: Kat Ailes
Imprint: Zaffre
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 573g
ISBN: 9781804180938
ISBN 10: 1804180939
Series: A Mothers' Murder Club Mystery
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kat Ailes' debut novel was runner-up for the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize 2021.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.

Reviews for Dead Tired: 'Cosy crime at its finest!' - Janice Hallett

'Ailes once again marries quick wit, surprising reveals, and charming antics from Alice's dog, Helen. This series has all the ingredients for a long and satisfying run' - Publishers Weekly 'Cosy crime at its finest' - Janice Hallett on The Expectant Detectives 'Sharply witty' - Simon Brett on The Expectant Detectives 'Gloriously smart ... this is really funny with edge' - Helen Lederer on The Expectant Detectives 'The epitome of fun and witty cosy crime' - iPaper on The Expectant Detectives