Hello to you all, dear readers!
I feel it has been some time since I sent a newsletter out. I do hope you are all doing well. I’ve been enjoying myself lately with a trip to Japan a few weeks ago. What an interesting and ancient culture. We enjoyed it quite a bit. I’ve also been enjoying spending some time with the grand children during their holidays – fun and exciting Easter celebrations and I was lucky enough to be invited to a Mother’s Day celebration too. It is always immensely satisfying seeing these small people grow and develop!
Meanwhile, while I was having fun gallivanting around Japan, my faithful team back at home were busy finalising some of the details on my upcoming novel. The next Casebook of Barnaby Adair, THE MURDER OF THOMAS CARDWELL, is due to be released on July 17, 2025. In the eleventh novel, we meet up with Jordan Draper, who has been tasked with the mission of investigating the murder of Thomas Cardwell.
Dispatched by Roscoe, London’s gambling king, to learn what “nefarious activity” an upstanding man-of-business has stumbled upon, Jordan Draper—Roscoe’s own man-of-business—arrives at Thomas Cardwell’s office to discover Cardwell very recently murdered.
Soon, Jordan finds himself working alongside the Adairs and Inspector Stokes as they search for clues as to why anyone would kill a man as unthreatening as Cardwell. Unexpectedly, Jordan finds himself drawn to Cardwell’s family, especially Thomas’s sister, Ruth, and as the investigation progresses, the greater Jordan’s compulsion to find the murderer and bring the family resolution and respite grows.
Clue by clue, motive by surprising motive, the investigators seek to identify Cardwell’s murderer and, along the way, uncover the “nefarious activity” he’d sought to bring to the authorities’ attention. But in a case cluttered with intertwined motives and a web of potential suspects related to each other as well as the victim, finding the kernel of truth amid the chaff is no easy matter. Only through enlisting the help of the investigators’ wider circle of supporters do they make any headway, and on the heels of uncovering a cascade of crimes, they finally—finally—close in on the man who murdered Thomas Cardwell.
As mentioned, THE MURDER OF THOMAS CARDWELL is due to be released on July 17, 2025. We currently have preorders available in all formats – digital, audio and print. If you’d like some more information on the novel and where to purchase it, click on the cover or the links for full details.
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