Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! Book Eighteen: Murder by the Book (Daisy Morrow, #18)

A well-known Norfolk author is rumoured to be up to his neck in dark deeds. When his nemesis goes missing, it starts to look like there's only one person responsible. But is all what it seems? Daisy decides she has to know for sure, and there's only one way to do that!
"One of the best cozy mystery series I've ever read!"
Jolyon Prendegast, a multi-million selling author of gothic horror novels, is Norfolk-based, living in a gothic castle-style manor not so far from Great Wiltingham. But he's about to be exposed...
Abbie Drake, an investigative reporter, is well known for her devotion to exposing all things suspect. She's had her teeth into Prendegast for a while, claiming that he didn't write any of his books.
Her weekly podcast, 'The Terrier Times', is followed by a lot of people. At the end of her latest broadcast, she hints that she's about to expose Prendegast for far darker deeds than she first thought, and she'd reveal all in the next podcast.
That podcast never appears. Already suspicious, the Poppleswick Pensioners take it upon themselves to investigate, visiting the manor to confront the man. Needless to say they don't get very far, but refusing to give up, things go scarily downhill for the terrible twosome.
In the meantime, Sarah asks Daisy for help with a possibly-missing person Burrows doesn't have time to look into. That person is Abbie Drake, and she lives in Great Wiltingham.
The plot thickens on two sides... Maisie and Doris become ever more convinced Prendegast is responsible for all kinds of horrors, and as Daisy and Aidan delve into Abbie's disappearance, those circumstances grow rapidly darker too.
But are the answers fact or fiction? With no hard evidence, Daisy decides there's only one way to uncover the truth, and it's not exactly risk-free!
'Murder by the Book' is on pre-order now, and scheduled for release on Monday 22th April.
Enjoy!

The RTG mission in life is simple... to not be like everyone else!
'Going Green' has taken on a new meaning, in the book world at least. Whilst we applaud the original meaning (ebooks are a perfect way to promote that) we also try to present a different angle to it.
The tendency these days is that if you don't look and read like everyone else, you don't sell books. Maybe there's some truth in that, but we simply don't do it. The RTG books have been described as a 'breath of fresh literary air', and, by those discovering us for the first time, 'unexpectedly good'. We know many readers prefer the same-old same old, and that's fine.
It's just not what you get from the RTG stable.
Those who know about such things said it would take five years to become a proficient author... I scoffed at that. They were wise. It took six. It's one reason why even today we remodel existing books, and will always do so. Right from the early years the stories were always good, but were put into words less well than they could have been!
These days we have several series and a few standalones, the hit Daisy series most popular amongst them. In everything we do, the same provisos apply –
Never the same book twice.
If we can't think up a good story, it doesn't get written.
The RTG brand is about exciting and twisty plots, a fast pace which doesn't waste words, and endearing (sometimes slightly crazy) characters. We can never please everyone, but it works for us, and, it seems, for those who appreciate our work.
Enjoy! Richard, Ann and the RTG crew