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Murder Like Clockwork

It’s all in the timing…

Every Thursday at midday Audrey Brooks cleans the Petrov house. Mr Petrov is never home – in fact he seems to use the house purely as storage for his impressive collection of antiques – but that doesn’t affect the care with which Audrey mops, polishes, and carefully winds each of the dozens of beautiful clocks that decorate the tall, elegant, empty London mansion.

Until the morning she finds a corpse in the back bedroom, the pristine walls and floor covered in blood, and flees the house in panic.

Then the police arrive and find nothing. No body. No blood. The only thing out of place is the clock in that back bedroom, which is now running four minutes slow. An empty house that isn’t empty. A vanished victim. Can Audrey and Lewis solve this seemingly impossible crime?

About the Author

Nicola Whyte

Nicola Whyte has loved books for as long as she can remember, particularly crime fiction. She writes novels and short stories for both adults and children.

Her work has been listed for the Comedy Women in Print Prize, the Cheshire Novel Prize, the Daily Mail First Novel Competition, the BPA First Novel Award, and the Times Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.

She lives near Stonehenge in Wiltshire with her family, a ridiculous spaniel, and two demanding tabby cats.