Events
At Bodies we plan to have regular events throughout the year, ranging from author signings and book launches to Crime Crackers and other book clubs, culminating in an annual party in autumn, Crime and Nourishment, featuring 8-10 authors speaking, meeting and greeting readers and fans with everyone enjoying tea and cake! Watch this space for news of what’s happening first and how to join in!
Alison Bruce – FULLY BOOKED
SORRY – FULLY BOOKED
Bodies is delighted to invite you to the launch of the latest Alison Bruce novel and the first in a new series: Because She Looked Away.
When: Thursday 3rd October 2024, 6.30pm
Where: The Master’s Lodge, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ
How much: Free – ticket holders only.
RSVP essential: in person at Bodies in the Bookshop or by email to info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk
Alison is famous for two stand-alone novels and for her DC Gary Goodhew series of seven thrilling and suspenseful Cambridge-set page-turners starting with Cambridge Blue. See the whole series here at Bodies.
Because She Looked Away
After the sudden death of her sister, devastated detective DS Ronnie Blake relocates to Cambridge to help her brother Alex raise their sister’s young son, Noah. She reports for her first day but instead finds herself being questioned by a special investigations unit, nicknamed the DEAD Team.
With a small group of six, led by DI Fenton, the once-successful DEAD team has a single outstanding case, Operation Byron, and the failure to resolve it threatens the unit’s existence. Their most promising lead is an anonymous note linking three seemingly unconnected people: a convicted fraudster, a dead academic… and Ronnie’s sister Jodie.
When Ronnie is denied information about Operation Byron, she follows a lead slipped to her by Malachi, the youngest member of the team, and makes a discovery which links Operation Byron to a disturbing unsolved murder. She is rapidly drawn into an intricate web of deceit, buried secrets and tragedy and the discovery that her connection to Cambridge is far darker than she could ever have guessed.
Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly is a well-known and highly-regarded local author and we’re excited to be helping him launch his latest title, The White Lie, in paperback form.
When: Thursday 10th October 2024, 6.30pm
Where: Bodies in the Bookshop, 1A Botolph Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RD
How much: Free – ticket holders only.
RSVP: in person at Bodies in the Bookshop or by email to info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk
Jim is famous for two highly-regarded series – one featuring Eden Brooke, the other Shaw & Valentine followed by standalones The Silent Child and now The White Lie. See the his titles here at Bodies.
The White Lie
THE LEGEND
1913. Captain Scott and his four companions reach the South Pole to find their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen has won the race. Defeated, they set out on the 850-mile journey to their ship. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the explorer sent out to meet them at One Ton depot, peering South through thick spectacles, sees only an infinity of white, and turns back. A year later Scott’s pitched tent is found, just ten miles from the depot, and the bodies within speak of hunger, the unbearable strain of hauling the sledge, and the brutal winter cold. They lie in a tomb of ice. Cherry is left forever tormented by thoughts of what might have been.
THE TRUTH? . . .
1969. Ten years after Cherry’s death, Falcon Grey – who as an orphan of the Blitz was brought up at the explorer’s country estate – receives a bequest: a small red notebook that was found in Scott’s tent. It is a diary: and it states that they were not victims of the cold, or hunger, but murder, in the coldest of blood. Suspects range from envious foreign powers – such as the Kaiser’s Germany – to revolutionaries and even Scott’s own men. Vital clues lie in the tent, so Falcon goes South to the ice to see it for himself, but someone is desperate to conceal the truth and will kill to keep the secrets under the ice.
Menna van Praag
Join us as we celebrate two new books from brilliant local author MENNA VAN PRAAG, known for, amongst others, her novels of magical realism including The House at the End of Hope Street, The Dress Shop of Dreams, and The Sisters Grimm trilogy.
When: Saturday 19th October 2024, 6.30pm
Where: Bodies in the Bookshop, 1A Botolph Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RD
How much: Free – ticket holders only.
RSVP: in person at Bodies in the Bookshop or by email to info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk
The Biscuit Tin Murders
introduces an exciting new culinary crime series set in sleepy 1970s Cambridge – a sweet recipe for a delightfully comforting read.
And,
Brimful of Starlight
written with STEPHEN BENNETT, Brimful of Starlight is a resonant dual-timeline historical romance with beautiful Cambridge featuring alongside Chinese poet Xu Zhimo in the cast of characters.
Signings and Launches
Exciting and engaging events for all the family – so long as they love crime fiction!
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