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Terry Deary
About the book
The new wickedly funny and clever murder mystery from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories.
'The perfect thriller - transporting you to a point in time through exquisite period details, peculiarly beguiling characters and immediate page turning events. The sort of book you dream of writing!' TOM ALLEN
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1973. Hours after a mysterious phone call is made to the police, a train pulls into Sunderland station with a dead body on board.
Cause of death: strangulation. Victim: unknown. Witnesses: none.
Undeterred by this baffling set of circumstances, newly promoted Police Sergeant Aline James vows to crack the case and prove her critics wrong. But when her famously ruthless investigation tactics yield no results, she is forced to seek help from two unlikely allies: unassuming assassin John Brown and calamitous actor Tony Davies.
As bodies pile up, can this unusual trio thwart a devilishly complex plot, before one of them, actually, becomes a corpse?
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Praise for the Actually Murders . . .
'Sinister and hilarious. Great fun' SUN
'Dark, witty . . . had me racing for the end' JANICE HALLETT
'[A] smart, funny and deftly executed page turner'GUARDIAN
'Extraordinarily fun and oh-so-gripping'i PAPER
'Funny, and so very, very clever . . . the most fun I've had reading a book in a long time ' M. W. CRAVEN
'Wonderful' IAN MOORE
Published on by Constable.
This book has 352 pages and is a Hardcover.
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